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
5 - ‘We Are not a Truth Commission’
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 September 2019
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
Summary
For James Clifford (1988: 290), the courtroom may be a ‘theater of dramatic gestures’ (see Chapter 2), but it is also a ‘machine for producing a permanent document’. The exchange above raises the question of whether the ‘permanent document’ should also contain historical material that is not required to convict or acquit an indicted individual (see Sarat and Kearns, 2002: 11; Turner, 2008: 535).
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- Genocide Never SleepsLiving Law at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, pp. 152 - 180Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019