Court of Remorse: Inside the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda

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Court of Remorse
C r i t i c a l H u m a n R i g h t s Series Editors Steve J. Stern Scott Straus Books in the series Critical Human Rights emphasize research that opens new ways to think about and understand human rights. The series values in particular empirically grounded and intellectually open research that eschews simplified accounts of human rights events and processes. In Court of Remorse, Thierry Cruvellier offers a nuanced and complex understanding of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, a central post– Cold War human rights institution that helped to establish a now common pattern of creating justice mechanisms to account for past human rights atrocities . The atrocity in question is the Rwandan genocide of 1994 in which more than half a million civilians were killed. Cruvellier is one of the most knowledgeable outside observers of the court, having watched proceedings and interviewed key actors day after day for nearly a decade. In Court of Remorse, Cruvellier draws on these daily observations to render a subtle, eloquent, and intelligent account of the tribunal, and in so doing he helps us understand a critical human rights institution in new and profound ways.
Court of Remorse Inside the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda Thierr y Cruvellier Translated by Chari Voss The University of Wisconsin Press
Publication of this volume has been made possible, in part, through support from the A F   C  L  S at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. The University of Wisconsin Press 1930 Monroe Street, 3rd Floor Madison, Wisconsin 53711-2059 uwpress.wisc.edu 3 Henrietta Street London WCE 8LU, England eurospanbookstore.com Originally published as Le tribunal des vaincus: Un Nuremberg pour le Rwanda? Copyright © 2006 by Calmann-Lévy Translation copyright © 2010 by the Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any format or by any means, digital, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, or conveyed via the Internet or a Web site without written permission of the University of Wisconsin Press, except in the case of brief quotations embedded in critical articles and reviews. 5 4 3 2 1 Printed in the United States of America Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Cruvellier, T. (Thierry) [Tribunal des vaincus. English] Court of remorse: inside the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda / Thierry Cruvellier; translated by Chari Voss. p. cm.—(Critical human rights) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-299-23674-8 (pbk.: alk. paper) ISBN 978-0-299-23673-1 (e-book) 1. International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. 2. Rwanda—History—Civil War, 1990–1993—Atrocities. 3. Rwanda—History—Civil War, 1994—Atrocities. 4. Trials (Crimes against humanity)—Rwanda. 5. War crime trials—Rwanda. 6. Genocide—Rwanda. I. Title. II. Series: Critical human rights. KTD454.C7813 2010 345.67571´0251—dc22 2009046343 To  
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