A Life-long Quest for Justice - Serge Brammertz
Awake At Night
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The International Criminal Court for Yugoslavia
The ICTY is a tribunal that also aims to bring about reconciliation on the ground. How do you reconcile prosecuting criminals with this aspiration? Some interlocutors and some politicians would say well in fact the tribunal is achieving the opposite of reconciliation because every time there's a judgment, acquittal or conviction one of the communities is very unhappy. Reconciliation alone can never in itself be achieved through a judicial process. It needs to come from within a society, from within the victims groups that's also the perpetrator groups.
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