In Arusha, the capital of Tanzania, before the International War Crimes committee for Rwanda, the trial of the events in Rwanda that led to the genocide of the Tutsis, is ending. Soon his term expires. 15 years were necessary to judge the main protagonists of this drama, providing witness to the antiquated tensions between justice, history, and politics.
It is in this context that Christophe Gargot chose to make a film offering an intense point of view of the particularity of the justice system, questioning its role in reconstruction.
On the occasion of its DVD release, the film is put into perspective with the extremely rich, including two unpublished texts collected in a book to match the DVD. Historian Sylvie Lindeperg led a scholarly reflection on the image and justice. The journalist Thierry Cruvellier offers him a careful analysis of the trial of over 800 pages against Bagosora. It clarifies the situation that judges face a brainless genocide.
It is in this context that Christophe Gargot chose to make a film offering an intense point of view of the particularity of the justice system, questioning its role in reconstruction.
On the occasion of its DVD release, the film is put into perspective with the extremely rich, including two unpublished texts collected in a book to match the DVD. Historian Sylvie Lindeperg led a scholarly reflection on the image and justice. The journalist Thierry Cruvellier offers him a careful analysis of the trial of over 800 pages against Bagosora. It clarifies the situation that judges face a brainless genocide.
Book and DVD in english and french
The Book has received financial support from the Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah (Commission Mémoire & Transmission). www.fondationshoah.org
Christophe Gargot Born in 1968 in Poitiers. A graduate of the Master New Media Ensci / Workshops. He is a consultant on international projects particularly in the areas of Human Rights and devoted several years to the production / documentary filmmaking. In 2001, he began a work of analysis of audiovisual archives of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, around one question: "What is the capacity of the image to testify." This work led him to look closely at the ICTR and the emergence of a transitional justice in Rwanda, the Gacaca, which he visited in 2002, which follows the evolution thereafter.
Sylvie Lindeperg, PhD in history and graduated from the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris is a professor at the University of Paris I Panthéon Sorbonne.
Thierry Cruvellier Editor of International Justice Tribune. 1997/2002, it was the only journalist to cover in the work of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda.