20081118

some international law documentaries

[a response to the question of a professor with a budget once]

1. http://www.sense-agency.com/documentaries/documentaries.37.html
lists several that might be on point:
a) Beyond Reasonable Doubt
b) Against All Odds
c) Triumph of Evil
all apparently relating to serbia.

2. http://www.aplconference.ca/screenings.html
a) Breaking the History of Silence - the Women's International War Crimes Tribunal for the Trial of Japanese Military Sexual Slavery
b) Hague Final Judgment - the Women's International War Crimes Tribunal for the Trial of Japanese Military Sexual Slavery
(these were produced by "Video Juku, Japan" in 2001 and 2002 respectively.)

3. http://www.idfa.nl/industry/tags/project.aspx?id=42d02bf6-f596-4205-ae8b-73765d7abfe0
"Carla's List" - the "first documentary on Hague Tribunal..." by Marcel Schupbach.

4. http://bookstore.usip.org/books/BookDetail.aspx?productID=171689
"Confronting the Truth" - U.S. Institute for Peace documentary on truth commissions in 20 countries since 1983.

And what do these all have in common?

That's right: None address the war crimes tribunals that were convened to investigate and prosecute those parties responsible for any crimes (against peace, humanity, or otherwise prohibited under international law) that may have been committed by the United States and its agents since it got punched in the face a bloody and expensive decade ago.

Why?

Because (but for a handful of military show trials of a few, individually bad apples) no such tribunals have been convened--which might in itself (in addition to eroding it) also be a violation of certain other provisions of international law--to be described cinematographically .