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The Armenians were driven to slaughter, and the eastern front was a nearly ungoverned zone where the Hague rules went almost entirely disregarded. Even on the trench-ridden western front, atrocities anticipating World War II’s excesses, from camps to rapes to reprisals, have barely begun to have their stories told. The category of “civilian” offered little protection; a civilian could be defined as a kind of victim in waiting, in part because the formal rules did precious little to protect him or (usually) her.
Humane: How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War
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