What is most striking about his masterpiece, "Human Remains," is his audacity in choosing to address atrocity entirely by omission.
"We have to know that today's bloodshed is the result of sectarian hatred and also the result of a stirring up of these sectarian tensions," al-Maliki said at a government-sanctioned conference addressing atrocities committed under dictator Saddam Hussein.
In July, a dormitory in Indonesia was raided by military and police personnel over a student screening of a documentary addressing atrocities committed in Papua, a region of that country.
Furthermore, such sophisticated rule of law work in underdeveloped countries has a significant chance of low returns on its investment, because the ICC will always have a higher likelihood of addressing atrocities that have occurred in countries devastated by conflict and thoroughly unable to investigate and prosecute any crimes, let alone a genocide case, for instance.
The World Bank has underscored that states that fail to address past atrocities are vulnerable to recurrent violence and poverty.
More broadly, it considers how governments seek to address such atrocities, whether through the courts, reparations, or symbolic forms of public apology or commemoration.
They also laid a strong foundation of precedent which helped the European court of human rights to address similar atrocities perpetrated by Russian forces in Chechnya.
"My goal was to make sure that the children, my cousins, were not forgotten in the attempts to address the atrocities in Darfur," she says.
The letter from the judge, Frederik Harhoff of Denmark, raised serious questions about the credibility of the court, which was created in 1993 to address the atrocities committed in the wars in the former Yugoslavia.
