Chapter 7
In: Sights, Sounds, and Sensibilities of Atrocity Prosecutions
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Abstract
This chapter takes the reader along a journey experienced through two senses—sound and taste as described in viva voce witness testimonies before the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC), and the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY). It discusses how these testimonies have been reduced to what ends up in a judgment: a snapshot of those sensory experiences found in the factual and legal findings, diluted by the passage of time, memory, language, and interpretation. This chapter nonetheless highlights the overall positive role played by the auditory and the gustatory in successfully proving atrocity crimes and in attributing individual criminal responsibility. It concludes that engaging with sound and taste allows for the emotive and sensory, thus capturing the totality of experiences more accurately.