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Mardi 22 février, le tribunal de district de La Haye a clos son dernier procès relevant de la compétence universelle, contre un binational afghan-néerlandais soupçonné d'avoir été un commandant et un chef du département des affaires politiques de la sinistre prison de Pul-e-Charki, à Kaboul, dans les années 1980. Le procès a mis en exergue ce qui semble être de vastes défis autour de l'enquête sur des accusations de crimes de guerre.

On July 2, Dutch prosecutors demanded a 27-year prison sentence for Ahmad Al Khedr for a single war crime and participation in a terrorist group in Deir ez-Zor, Syria. At the heart of the case is the execution of a Syrian officer, caught on camera. Historian Thijs Bouwknegt tells the story of the first Syrian tried for murder before Dutch courts. While Dutch investigators still struggle to bring cases against government agents.

This article treks through the timeworn remnants of Czechoslovakia's Communist forced and correctional labour uranium camps in the Ore Mountains in the northwest Bohemian region of Jáchymov. These camps held tens of thousands of detainees, largely political prisoners convicted in sham trials or individuals sent there for re-education. Conditions were deplorable. Throughout the 1950s, the young Czechoslovak Communist regime compelled detainees to hard, life threatening labour and subjected them to maltreatment and arbitrary violence. This article traces some of the visible, invisible or overgrown artefacts of the former camps, as well as public as private memories about what happened there. It reflects on the current memoryscape of these forgotten places of human suffering and describes the aesthetics of these aging sites of atrocity.

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Introduction: On History, Historians, and Transitional Justice / Adler, Nanci -- Part I: The complex relationship between truth and justice -- 1. Swinging the Pendulum: Fin-de-Siècle Historians in the Courts / Petrović, Vladimir -- 2. Time, Justice, and Human Rights: Statutory Limitation on the Right to Truth? / Schabas, William A. -- 3. How Truth Recovery Can Benefit from a Conditional Amnesty / Sarkin, Jeremy -- 4. New Epistemologies for Confronting International Crimes: Developing the Information, Dialogue, and Process (IDP) Approach to Transitional Justice / Parmentier, Stephan / Rauschenbach, Mina / Craen, Maarten van -- Part II: The narrative of the trial record -- 5. The Spark for Genocide? Propaganda and Historical Narratives at International Criminal Tribunals / Wilson, Richard Ashby -- 6. The International Criminal Trial Record as Historical Source / Bouwknegt, Thijs B. -- Part III: The afterlife of transitional justice processes -- 7. Narrating (In)Justice in the Form of a Reparation Claim: Bottom-Up Reflections on a Postcolonial Setting—The Rawagede Case / Immler, Nicole L. -- 8. Collective and Competitive Victimhood as Identity in the Former Yugoslavia / Nielsen, Christian Axboe -- 9. Perpetrator-Victims: How Universal Victimhood in Cambodia Impacts Transitional Justice Measures / Williams, Timothy -- 10. Collective Crimes, Collective Memory, and Transitional Justice in Bangladesh / Anderson, Kjell -- Acknowledgments -- Notes on Contributors -- Index