The ICC: When guilt goes beyond crime

If you kill one person, an old joke goes, you get sent to jail. Kill 20, you get sent to a mental asylum. Kill 20,000, you get sent to Geneva for peace talks. The story is very much a reflection of the mass atrocities of the twentieth century. The search for universal justice is rooted in the determination to get rid of the source of such cynicism.

Related Subject(s): Human Rights and Refugees