ABSTRACT
This chapter considers the way in which violence is remembered during the legal construction of memory at the international criminal tribunals (ICTR). This consideration is made in relation to parts of the legal transitional justice scholarship advocating legal proceedings as the primacy of transitional justice mechanisms. The chapter argues that the multidimensional experiences of violence are incompatible with the legal scholarship’s claim that legal mechanisms are able to account for individual diverse experiences of violence. In particular, it discusses the limitations of the way in which violence is constructed and shaped by law during the legal processes (pre-trial) at the ICTR. The chapter talks about Fujii’s research that focuses on the social dynamics of genocide, particularly the complexities in understanding experiences and behaviours. ‘Manipulated memories’ entail institutions (ICTR) bringing together dominant norms that regulate what is perceived to be accepted social behaviour and relations.
