Humanitarian Juggernaut
Alex de Waal, 22 June 1995
Mercy under Fire: War and the Global Humanitarian Community
by Larry Minear and Thomas Weiss.
Westview, 247 pp., £44.50, July 1995,0 8133 2567 6 Show More
by Larry Minear and Thomas Weiss.
Westview, 247 pp., £44.50, July 1995,
“... of Justice in The Hague that US aid to the Nicaraguan Contras was not ‘purely humanitarian’. Larry Minear and Thomas Weiss respond that ‘humanitarianism is simply what the International Committee of the Red Cross does.’ Among the 1949 Geneva Conventions is a provision for the protection of humanitarian relief, with strict conditions to ensure ... ”