Book contents
- Genocide Never Sleeps
- Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
- Genocide Never Sleeps
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Judging the Crime of Crimes
- 1 ‘When We Walk Out; What Was It All About?’
- 2 ‘Watching the Fish in the Goldfish Bowl’
- 3 ‘Who the Hell Cares How Things Are Done in the Old Country’
- 4 ‘They Don’t Say What They Mean or Mean What They Say’
- 5 ‘We Are not a Truth Commission’
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
- Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
1 - ‘When We Walk Out; What Was It All About?’
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 September 2019
- Genocide Never Sleeps
- Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
- Genocide Never Sleeps
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Judging the Crime of Crimes
- 1 ‘When We Walk Out; What Was It All About?’
- 2 ‘Watching the Fish in the Goldfish Bowl’
- 3 ‘Who the Hell Cares How Things Are Done in the Old Country’
- 4 ‘They Don’t Say What They Mean or Mean What They Say’
- 5 ‘We Are not a Truth Commission’
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
- Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
Summary
On my first day at the ICTR in 2005 I met with an external relations officer. ‘I haven’t sold my soul to the devil yet’ he told me, ‘but there are plenty of people willing to raise the flag and let it flutter in the wind’. He handed me a pamphlet entitled ‘ICTR: Challenging Impunity’. ‘Here’s the propaganda’ he said, and told me to go and speak to a particular prosecutor, who would, he predicted, give me the ‘official line’ that ‘He claims that a purpose of the ICTR is deterrence. But, just look what’s happening in Darfur’ waving his hand northwards. ‘This place is a salve for the conscience of an organization that could have done something in 1994.’
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- Genocide Never SleepsLiving Law at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, pp. 26 - 55Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019