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It has been made clear that as a group, and on balance, victims of crimes against humanity and genocide want justice. This does not mean that they then will not “forgive” or turn the page. The victims’ demand for justice has a two-fold purpose at least: (1) to seek an account for the crimes committed from those who had committed them against themselves and their group, and (2) to ensure that a general standard for the intolerable be established for humanity and its future generations. This is expressed in homely terms, often heard, that the survivors hope that the sanction will prevent a similar crime ever happening again. Overall, they eschew condonation.
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Davidson, A. (2015). The Limits to Law: Revenge and Private Justice. 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_9
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