Permanent Peoples’ Tribunals and the pursuit of justice in Sri Lanka
By JS Tissainayagam Feb 03, 2014
Can civil society initiatives succeed where the world’s powerful governments have failed?
Competitive, state-centred international politics are often a barrier for victims of human rights violations to find redress through global judicial institutions. To circumvent some of these restrictions the civil society-led International War Crimes Tribunal was founded by Bertrand Russell in 1967 to try the United States and its allies for war crimes against the Vietnamese people.