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Erna Paris
Born
in Toronto, Canada
May 06, 1938
Died
February 03, 2022
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“But seen through a long lens, peacemaking founded on 'forgetting' appears to have a limited lifespan.”
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“In our tribunal, we look only at personal criminal responsibility in a very tightly defined, narrow way and we demand proof beyond a resonable doubt about the involvement of the individual. We do no have a mandate to establish the moral responsibility of those who saw things happen and did nothing, including people who might have had the capacity to stop the process and did nothing. But we have to be careful in thinking that just because we focus on individual criminal guilt we therefore absolve the community. The old distinctions are too simplistic when we move up the chain of command and witness the merging of the collectivity into the personae of these charismatic political and military leaders.'
-Louise Arbour, Chief Prosecutor for International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia”
― Long Shadows: Truth, Lies and History
-Louise Arbour, Chief Prosecutor for International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia”
― Long Shadows: Truth, Lies and History
“But witnesses incur responsibilities, as anyone who has ever seen a traffic accident and had to go to court to testify, knows. In the new world of globally televised war crimes, the defence of 'not knowing,' or neutrality, will dissolve for everyone. To be a witness or bystander is not a value-free choice but, inadvertently, a moral position; and in this sense the 'guilt' of people who live with the memory of crimes committed by members of their families, or communities, has been unwittingly extended to everyone who watches appalling pictures on the news.”
― Long Shadows: Truth, Lies and History
― Long Shadows: Truth, Lies and History