Truth Commissions and Judicial Trials: Complementary or Antagonistic Servants of Public Justice?
"The call to punish human rights criminals can present complex and agonising problems that have no single or simple solution. While the debate over the Nuremberg trials still goes on, that episode—trials of war criminals of a defeated nation—was simplicity itself as compared to the subtle and d...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
2001
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Journal of law and religion
Year: 2001, Volume: 16, Issue: 1, Pages: 1-33 |
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| Summary: | "The call to punish human rights criminals can present complex and agonising problems that have no single or simple solution. While the debate over the Nuremberg trials still goes on, that episode—trials of war criminals of a defeated nation—was simplicity itself as compared to the subtle and dangerous issues that can divide a country when it undertakes to punish its own violators."-Judge Marvin Frankel"That's what lawyers do, Mark. They twist words. They twist truth. That's why people hate them."-A recent television drama"Memories are their own descendants masquerading as the ancestors of the present."-David Mitchell"We expected justice, and we got the rule of law."-Bärbel Bohley"We do not want to see people suffer in the same way that we did suffer …. We do not want to return the evil that perpetrators committed to the nation. We want to demonstrate humanness towards them, so that they in turn may restore their own humanity."-Cynthia Ngewu |
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| ISSN: | 2163-3088 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of law and religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2307/1051506 |