Law, Politics and the Limits of Prosecuting Mass Atrocity

Damien Rogers is Senior Lecturer at the Centre for Defence and Security Studies at Massey University, New Zealand.

• 1. Introduction .- 2. International Military Tribunals .- 3. Indictment of German and Japanese War Leaders .- 4. Opening Statements at Nuremberg and Tokyo .- 5. Ad-hoc International Criminal Tribunals .- 6. Indictment of Yugoslav and Rwandan Troublemakers .- 7. Opening Statements at The Hague and Arusha .- 8. International Criminal Court .- 9. New Generation of Prosecutors: Warrants, Summonses and Opening Statements .- 10. Conclusion.

“Examining prosecutors’ work through the lens of critical thinking can be regarded as a novel and ambitious choice of methodology, and can certainly be of interest to discourse analysis scholars and specialists on international relations and conflict studies.” (Galina Nelaeva and Elena Khabarova, Leiden Journal of International Law, Vol. 32 (2), June 2019)