{"title":"Innocence Lost: From Child to Perpetrator of International Crimes","authors":"M. Crenshaw","doi":"10.37974/ALF.314","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37974/ALF.314","url":null,"abstract":"For quite some time, there have been debates on whether people who commit crimes do so because of dispositional reasons or situational factors. Society seems to create a distance between ordinary people and those who perpetrates international crimes. Currently at the International Criminal Court, Dominic Ongwen, a former child soldier has an ongoing case against him in which he is charged with war crimes and crimes against humanity, including the recruitment of child soldiers. This paper relates Ongwen’s situation to another former soldier, Ishmael Beah, who has written his memoir with the intention of spreading awareness of use of child soldiers in armed conflict.","PeriodicalId":243475,"journal":{"name":"Amsterdam Law Forum","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115811988","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Hide and Seek in the Killing Fields","authors":"Száva Adél Tar","doi":"10.37974/ALF.315","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37974/ALF.315","url":null,"abstract":"Humanity has witnessed wide-scale, often systematic terror throughout its history. Ordinary people subjected to extraordinary circumstances have become perpetrators, bystanders or victims of crimes – these distinctions not always being crystal clear. Among the most notable of such examples is the approximately three decade long conflict in Cambodia, under the Khmer Rouge. Pol Pot’s name is what most people would think of when discussing Khmer Rouge rule, however, he was but one of the several key figures responsible for the orchestration of mass cleansing and political reformation within the country. Journalist Nic Dunlop journeys into the depth of Cambodia to find prison commandant ‘Comrade Duch’ who alone was responsible for the death of tens of thousands of people. Dunlop’s aim in the book is thus to shed light to three largely important questions: to discover “how” and “why” the ordinary person Duch was had come to be one of the most infamous mass murderers of the 20 th century; and last but not least, how the world could have allowed this atrocity to happen on their watch.","PeriodicalId":243475,"journal":{"name":"Amsterdam Law Forum","volume":"67 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-04-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132977881","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Different Fields, Different Voices","authors":"Eszter Csenge Boldis","doi":"10.37974/ALF.312","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37974/ALF.312","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":243475,"journal":{"name":"Amsterdam Law Forum","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-04-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129672317","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ariana Lopez, Despina Kornilaki, Patrick Richnow, Száva Adél Tar
{"title":"“The Legacy of the ICTY and Continuing Importance of Criminal Tribunals” - A Documentary Viewing of “What Our Fathers Did: A Nazi Legacy” & A Talk by Judge Liu Daqun","authors":"Ariana Lopez, Despina Kornilaki, Patrick Richnow, Száva Adél Tar","doi":"10.37974/ALF.316","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37974/ALF.316","url":null,"abstract":"This commentary aims to review the importance of criminal tribunals through a documentary by Philippe Sands that looks into World War II and through a discussion with Judge Liu Daqun from the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY). The documentary provides insight into two men that were heavily involved in the Nazi regime, but managed to receive differing treatment after the war. One was found guilty during the Nuremberg Trials and the other was never tried. Their sons grew with differing views of their father’s guilt. One son outwardly believes in the guilt of his father whereas the other fails to see the guilt of his father, despite Sands’ evidence, as no tribunal ever found him guilty. This brings out the important effect a criminal tribunal may have on the beliefs of the following generation. Judge Liu Daqun follows the documentary with a discussion on the importance of the ICTY in establishing individual criminal responsibility. The discussion and the documentary viewing took place in December 15, 2017 and this commentary will provide an overview of the event.","PeriodicalId":243475,"journal":{"name":"Amsterdam Law Forum","volume":"51 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-04-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115938133","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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