Human Rights in the Period of the Vietnam War
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As the memory of World War II was still fresh during the Vietnam war, pacifists often referred to the Nuremberg and Tokyo trials. This line of criticism had no judicial consequences, for the international humanitarian law then in force contained many escape clauses. Nevertheless, the theme of human rights had political consequences : it placed the open, massive violence of South Vietnam and the United States in a bad light, whereas the quiet terrorism of North Vietnam and the NLF passed muster. Yet, soon after the end of the war, with the distinction between « authoritarianism » and « totalitarianism », American conservatives found a new rationale for military interventions abroad, in the name of human rights.
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