History
- 1988 First to document Iraq’s use of chemical weapons against Kurds
- 1996 Exhumed mass graves in the Balkans
- 1996 Produced critical forensic evidence of genocide in Rwanda
- 1997 Shared the Nobel Peace Prize for the International Campaign to Ban Landmines
- 2003 Warned of health and human rights catastrophe prior to the invasion of Iraq
- 2004 Documented and analyzed the genocide in Darfur
- 2005 Detailed the story of tortured detainees in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantánamo Bay
- 2010 Showed how CIA medical personnel sought to improve waterboarding and other interrogation techniques that amount to torture
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“The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom.”
—Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831)
“... the history of the race, from infancy through its stages of barbarism, heathenism, civilization, and Christianity, is a process of suffering, as the lower principles of humanity are gradually subjected to the higher.”
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But what experience and history teach is this—that peoples and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it.”
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