Reed Brody to tyrants and a “spark of hope for victims.” In the wake of the Pinochet case, Brody began pursuing other former exiled leaders including Hissène Habré of Chad, Mengistu Haile Mariam of Ethiopia, Jean-Claude Duvalier and Raul Cédras of Haiti, and Idi Amin of Uganda. He wrote the Human Rights Watch booklet "The Pinochet Precedent: How Victims can Pursue Human Rights Criminals Abroad". Brody was an observer at the 2012 trial of Spanish judge Baltasar Garzón. Judge Garzón is best known for using the doctrine of universal jurisdiction to investigate war crimes and torture across national lines, most notably ordering
Jean-Claude Pressac at Auschwitz : design, construction, use, modifications, and destruction of the crematoria and gas chambers" which was published in 1993. Reporting from France for The New York Times, Roger Cohen wrote on 28 October 1993: The book written by Pressac was a subject of Ron Rosenbaum's interview with Claude Lanzmann in Paris, conducted for his own book "Explaining Hitler". Rosenbaum noted how much the 1985 release of the Lanzmann's controversial Shoah (film) "had raised him to the vatic, prophetic heights" from which he hurled criticism at others. Pressac was no exception. Lanzmann said: Jean-Claude Pressac Jean-Claude Pressac ( 1944 –