As discussed in the Introduction, scholarship on international criminal justice has tended to concentrate on texts (judgments and transcripts). These texts are, however, a residue of dynamic, situated encounters (see Buur, 2003b: 67; Robben, 2010). As the episode above illustrates, the courtroom is a place in which people occupy specific positions, sweat and expend energy. Such details have been largely absent from scholarly literature on the ICTR (on the Extraordinary Chambers of the Courts of Cambodia, see Hinton 2016: 47–8, 229–32, 254–5).