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A second meeting of experts on the use of such conventional weapons as may cause unnecessary suffering or have indiscriminate effects was held at ICRC headquarters from 12 to 15 June 1973. At this meeting, experts had an opportunity to comment on the report issued after the first meeting, held in Geneva from 26 February to 2 March 1973.

More than seven years have elapsed since the first edition of this work. Seven years which have seen an increase rather than a decline of violence, and often an increasing contempt for life and for fundamental human rights.

Mrs Diallo went recently to Africa at the request of the ICRC for which she drew up a report, which it gives us pleasure to publish, in view of the interest of the Red Cross in demonstrating that the profound idea which inspired it, the idea of respect for human dignity and of unselfish help for those who suffer, is an inseparable part of man's heritage.

The world's only annual publication devoted to the study of the laws of armed conflict, ""The Yearbook of International Humanitarian Law"" provides a truly international forum for high-quality, peer-reviewed academic articles focusing on this highly topical branch of international law. Ease of use of the Yearbook is guaranteed by the inclusion of a detailed index. Distinguished by its topicality and contemporary relevance, ""The Yearbook of International Humanitarian Law"" bridges the gap between theory and practice and serves as a useful reference tool for scholars, practitioners, military pe

The XXIst International Conference of the Red Cross, meeting at Istanbul in September 1969, devoted its Resolution XIII to the reaffirmation and development of the laws and customs applicable in armed conflicts. That resolution, the text of which is appended hereto, assigns to the International Committee of the Red Cross some heavy tasks, in particular that of drawing up proposals in that field for submission to governments.

The American conception of normative self-justification is traced to the long period of colonial existence under British domination to argue that disentangling the dual American legacy that is blind to its own faults & acts so mercilessly is necessary to understanding state terrorism. The pathological dualism of America's global role is asserted to be weakening the emergent framework of global cooperative arrangements, & eroding the framework of international law. The pattern of subordinating moral & legal guidelines in pursuit of strategic goals is asserted to represent a fundamental breakdown of rule-governed relationships among states, & is related to cases of nonreciprocity of American conduct in the atomic attacks on Hiroshima & Nagasaki, the geopolitical frustrations of the Korean & Vietnamese War. The patterns of the self serving US & Japanese discourse are concluded require further study & challenge to the moralizing war myth that is coupled with dehumanization of the enemy. J. Harwell