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des lois et des coutumes de la guerre Belgium. Commission d'enquête sur la violation des règles du droit des gens
Created in the first months of World War I, this Belgian inquiry commission gathered evidence on alleged violations of international law and the laws of war during the German invasion. Its reports were part legal record, part wartime testimony, and helped shape how Belgium presented its case to the wider world.
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The Martyrdom of Belgium Official Report of Massacres of Peaceable Citizens, Women and Children by The German Army
by des lois et des coutumes de la guerre Belgium. Commission d'enquête sur la violation des règles du droit des gens, Gerard Cooreman
About the author
Rather than a single writer, this work is credited to a Belgian government commission: the Commission d'enquête sur la violation des règles du droit des gens, des lois et des coutumes de la guerre. Contemporary library records and digitized editions identify the commission itself as the author of reports on violations of international law and the laws and customs of war in Belgium during World War I.
English-language editions of these reports were published in 1915 on behalf of the Belgian legation. Some editions also list prominent associated figures, including Gérard Cooreman, Cardinal Désiré Mercier, Thomas Louis Heylen, and Jules Van den Heuvel, reflecting the official and public importance of the inquiry.
Because this is a corporate author, there is no single personal biography in the usual sense. The commission's importance lies in its role as an official fact-finding body during a national crisis, assembling testimony and documents that were meant to record events in Belgium and present them to an international audience.