This book shows how Rwanda's transitional courts that tried genocide crimes - the gacaca - produced social complicity and cemented authoritarian rule.
The charters of the ICC and the various international ad hoc tribunals set up to try genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity all explicitly rule out immunity for anyone.
The solution was gacaca: a system of 12,000 community-based courts that sought to try genocide criminals while promoting forgiveness by victims, ownership of guilt by criminals, and reconciliation in communities as a way to move forward.
Another step comes in June, when Fatou Bensouda of the Gambia takes over as chief prosecutor from Luis Moreno-Ocampo of Argentina, who may have only one verdict to show for his nine years in office.Since it was set up in 2002 to try genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity, the court has been lambasted for its glacial slowness.
The court will have the authority to try genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity, and other serious crimes that violate international law and Sudanese law committed since the current conflict began.
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A fourth car bomb exploded in front of the house of Sheik Wasfi al-Asi, who had recently publicly called on the government to release Saddam Hussein, who is currently being tried on genocide charges.
Prosecutors said they still held out hope the court would rule in their favor on the question of whether Mr. Echeverría, 83, can be tried for genocide under Mexican law.
Of course, it is Mr. Milosevic, not NATO, who is on trial, so little of his broadside is likely to help him in court, where he is the first head of state to be tried for genocide.
In the trial at the international criminal tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), Mladic's deputy commander, Radislav Krstic, was tried for genocide and sentenced to 46 years in prison.
