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Special Assistant to the Judge Advocate General of the Army W. Hays Parks discusses issues related to the Geneva Convention with reporters at the Pentagon on April 7, 2003. Hays and Ambassador Pierre-Richard Prosper, U.S. ambassador for war crimes issues, briefed reporters on the Convention, the laws of war, the handling of prisoners of war, and war crimes.

March 26, 2020

W. Hays Parks and the Law of War

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Portrait of Leo Tolstoy (1887)

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The Court-Martial of Private Vasily Shabunin

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