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Standard Operating Procedure: Philip Gourevitch, Julian Burnside and Gerry Simpson

Standard operating procedure. Just ordinary Americans. What went wrong at Abu Ghraib? At this fascinating Melbourne Writers Festival session Philip Gourevitch (New Yorker contributor and author of Standard Operating Procedure), Gerry Simpson (Professor of International Law at the London School of Economics) and Julian Burnside QC discuss the systemic failures that led to the disintegration of human decency.

Melbourne, August 2008

(Part 1 of 2)

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Source: Melbourne Writers Festival

Duration: 21m 43s

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