ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. The book discusses how records and archives can be used to document gross violations of human rights. It describes international justice which was launched by the Nuremberg and Tokyo trials, and gained speed after the creation of the international tribunals for the former Yugoslavia (1993) and Rwanda (1994), far from being an irreversible development must be fought for again and again. It explores the adamant opposition of the United States (US) administration during the Trump presidency to the very notion of international justice. The book describes the fight for the truth, justice and reparation in one country has often inspired human rights activists in other countries. It argues that the Cambodian example has inspired "the recent establishment by the United Nations of two impartial and independent mechanisms to collect, preserve and analyse evidence of the crimes committed in Syria and Myanmar".
