More to justice than a trial

Mahdev Mohan, Assistant Professor of Law and co-founder of Access to Justice Asia (AJA), co-authored an article on the prosecution in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, which starts this week, at the United Nations-sponsored Khmer Rouge tribunal. Former senior leaders of the brutal Khmer Rouge regime are charged with serious crimes that claimed an estimated two million lives from 1975 to 1979. The authors commented that “There is more to justice than convening a trial. The obligation to make reparations to victims is a critical component of the international criminal justice process. How the court fulfils this duty will be a key yardstick by which it will be judged.”