A01=Lajco Klajn
Author_Lajco Klajn
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Product details
- ISBN 9780761836476
- Weight: 526g
- Dimensions: 153 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 28 Jun 2007
- Publisher: University Press of America
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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The Past in Present Times exposes the violations of human rights, war crimes, and genocide during the rise of the former Yugoslavia during World War I, prior to and directly after World War II, the Yugoslav War, and the recent fall of the federation. In addition to the legal findings by the Nuremberg and Hague Tribunals, including the most recent trials, this legal-historical analysis reviews details of undisputed facts and recorded dialogues, which unveils surprising background information. As Dr. Lajco Klajn leads the reader along an historical line of events, he clarifies the factors and circumstances that led to genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity while explaining the social, legal, historical, and moral consequences. Without forcing judgment about the past, Dr. Klajn exposes the roots of these conflicts and explains why if the roots are not eradicated, the conflicts may resurface in the future as a manifestation of even more monstrous wars and suffering as the past becomes the present once again.
Lajco Klajn was born in Subotica (Vojvodina) in 1925. He survived WWII as a partisan, while almost his entire extended family perished in the concentration camps. He completed law school, was elected judge in the Vojvodina Constitutional Court, and since 1987 served as professor of law at the University of Novi Sad and member of the Yugoslav Federal Ministry of Justice committee that studied war crimes. In the capacity of legal expert, Dr. Klajn led major legal proceedings. He presented and published more than one hundred scientific reports in addition to biographical data, books, textbooks, and memoirs.
