How "civilized" is international criminal jurisdiction?

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by Gilad Ben-Nun Destroyed buildings in Aleppo, Syria / Photo: Aladdin Hammami/Unsplash Why are war crimes supposed to be presented in front of courts of “civilized people”, a term deeply connected to the horrors of colonialism? Gilad Ben-Nun explores the history of this concept. On 23 April 2020 at the regional court of Koblenz, the trial of two Syrian defendants, charged with mass murder, torture, and crimes against humanity commenced. Seeing as the alleged crimes were neither commit...

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