A war crimes tribunal run by the Arab League could be the solution.
But this "hybrid" judicial process, in a body that is a compromise between an international tribunal run by the United Nations and an indigenous Cambodian court, has been expensive and high-profile.
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In the film, Josef K. (Anthony Perkins), is put under arrest for an unspecified offense and hauled before a tribunal run by a hectoring inquisitor in front of a braying crowd.
In New York the Occupy Wall Street movement will demonstrate outside the Egyptian mission to the UN, while in Oakland, California, protesters will gather at a local detention facility to highlight the plight of pro-change Egyptian activists imprisoned through military tribunals run by the junta.
It is a system that allows the government to conduct warrantless wiretaps of conversations between prisoners and their lawyers, a system in which defendants can be tried and condemned to death by secret military tribunals run according to procedural rules that bear scant resemblance to normal military justice.
"We knew the efforts to create a legitimate tribunal were running up against resistance," she said.
By the time of this year's election, many leading suspects from the war had been sentenced and jailed, and one executed, despite deep flaws in the way the tribunal was run, with concerns about its independence.
The tribunal, jointly run by the UN and the Sierra Leonean authorities, will try those it thinks are most responsible for the atrocities committed in the 10-year civil war in which 50,000 people were killed.
But one man in particular has fallen deeper into the manure: Bertie Ahern, who served as taoiseach (prime minister) between 1997 and 2008.The tribunal, which ran for 15 years and could cost taxpayers up to €250m ($335m), found that Mr Ahern had lied about the source of large deposits of money in his bank account.
