Prosecution or Forgiveness


Prosecution or Forgiveness?
The FIFTH of our events is a discussion based on a series of links to sites that discuss the relationship between truth and history and their relevance to our contemporary events in the countries that formerly comprised Yugoslavia, Rwanda and Burundi, and South Africa. In the last decade of the twentieth century these were all sites of not only crimes against humanity, but also of crimes against the past. How will these societies deal with the legacy of past events that cannot and should not be forgotten? How is the past to be resolved? Through the prosecution of crimes or the forgiveness of crimes? In Rwanda and South Africa two different sets of solutions are being attempted. TO PARTICIPATE IN THE DISCUSSION, CLICK ON THE REACT/INTERACT BUTTON BELOW.		Richard J. Goldstone For Humanity: Reflections of a War Crimes Investigator
	What are the dangers of courts forgiving those who confess their crimes against humanity, as in South Africa? If courts prosecute those who have committed crimes against humanity in societies that are deeply divided (as in Rwanda or the former Yugoslavia), what sort of future can those societies have?
OTHER RELATED LINKS: PROSECUTING WAR CRIMINALS, An Interview with Madam Justice Louise Arbour of Canada's Supreme Court HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH REPORT ON RWANDA, Leave None to Tell the Story CONVERSATIONS WITH HISTORY from the Institute of International Studies, University of California at Berkeley SOUTH AFRICAN TRUTH AND RECONCILIATION SITE JUSTICE GOLDSTONE'S RECENT BOOK from Yale University Press, For Humanity: Reflections of a War Crimes Investigator Website for the film, "LONG NIGHT'S JOURNEY INTO DAY" *kikinomaatiwin* FILMS Listing

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Prosecution or Forgiveness?