SCLG2623 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Human Rights Quarterly, International Criminal Court, Transitional Justice
1 Dec 2018
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The lecture explores the use of trials in dealing with the legacy of violence that there are limits to testimony as truth in trials and truth commissions. In truth commissions testimony becomes a vehicle to publicly affirm a past without necessarily addressing the issues of justice or injustice to the victim or the perpetrator. Trials however address the question of national rebuilding on the basis of justice. Truth in law is seen as the means to justice. However trials are highly contingent on the willingness to prosecute and the willingness to testify. Until recently war crimes trials have been organised outside the countries where gross human rights abuses have taken place. Thus the tribunal in the hague on bosnia and the tribunal in arusha (tanzania) on rwanda. International criminal court seems to open the way for international prosecutions. Wilson, richard ashby (2005) judging history: the historical record of the. International criminal tribunal for the former yugoslavia" .
