Damien Scalia: “It is essential to listen to what the genocidaires have to say about international criminal justice”

What do genocidaires and other war criminals think of international criminal justice? In a recently published essay, the Swiss researcher Damien Scalia, professor of law at the Free University of Brussels, privileged this still completely new perspective: giving a voice to those who have been tried in The Hague or in Arusha for atrocities committed in the former Yugoslavia and in Rwanda. From 2011 to 2016, he met around sixty people, definitively condemned or acquitted, in order to collect their story within this big machine. At a time when these crimes continue to focus attention, particularly in Ukraine, and when huge expectations are placed in the prosecution of their perpetrators, this book illustrates the pitfalls and limits of the system through the testimonies of the main persons concerned. .