Truth in International Criminal Justice, Truth in Transitional Justice and the Right to the Truth
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international criminal judiciary, transitional justice, right to the truthAbstract
The author points on eternal dilemma on importance and role of the truth in criminal
proceedings. Analyzes the importance and the role of the truth in international criminal
judiciary and transitional justice, especially addressing the Right to the truth as human right
and international custom, development of this right under the auspices of commissions
and international bodies, with special reference to the Right to the truth before EctHR. The
author points to the inherent shortcomings of international criminal justice that make it
difficult to reach the truth, especially in modern forms of negotiated jusitce. Finally, the
author is offering a note of caution on the pretensions of international legal mechanisms of
criminal law to deliver the truth about historical events under the mantle of international
justice.
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