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Migration in the Age of Genocide

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To deny victims the right to have their persecutors punished in a fitting way was already unjust. To deny, through the imposition of amnesties, the right to have the truth of what had been done to them told and acknowledged was doubly unjust. Both policies failed totally to return society to social peace: they merely provoked more private justice. Protagonists of the rule of law, stymied by these failures, came up with a third “legal” solution, less traditional and less widely accepted than the day in court or even the semi-executive amnesty: the show trial.

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  1. Politics, Monash University, Clayton, VIC, Australia

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Davidson, A. (2015). Show Trials. In: Migration in the Age of Genocide. Migration, Minorities and Modernity, vol 1. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21849-6_5

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