ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the interrelation of justice, truth-seeking, and redress as they have evolved both nationally and internationally. Formal mechanisms ranged from the humanitarian law of The Hague Conventions and Geneva Conventions to war crimes tribunals at Nuremberg and for Yugoslavia, Rwanda, and Sierra Leone and, most recently, to an International Criminal Court with universal jurisdiction though, alas, not yet universal membership. It was Rwandans who lived these crimes and who undoubtedly deserve ownership over the documents which spell out, in harrowing detail, the forensic and factual truths behind [the genocide]. The UN supported in this by human rights NGOs in Cambodia and abroad declared the country's post-genocide legal system incapable of administering justice. However, 'most truth commissions have not investigated this international role at any depth; few have addressed the issue at all in their final report'. This reflects material and evidentiary constraints, as well as the complexity of some international involvements.
