How the U.N. collected terabytes of war crimes evidence from around the globe
War crimes -- brutal genocide, mass executions, ethnic cleansing, torture -- have spurred international efforts by the United Nations to investigate and convict those deemed responsible, wherever they have occurred. And according to those involved in prosecuting war crimes in once war-torn places such as the former Yugoslavia, Cambodia and Rwanda, modern technology related to e-discovery and multi-lingual translation is playing a critical role in the ongoing process to find justice for victims.
"The challenge is, we work in several languages," says Gonzalo de Cesare, information officer at the Council of the European Union, and a legal expert in records management who has been involved in the U.N. war crimes tribunals related to the former Yugoslavia, Rwanda and Cambodia, where investigations and prosecutions into war-related atrocities, including genocide, still proceed. "When I worked in Cambodia, it was not only different languages, but different scripts."
To get evidence to find and prosecute war criminals, legal teams under U.N. tribunals have travelled the world to amass the evidence they needed to try and pinpoint those responsible for horrific brutalities in war-torn parts of the globe, such as the estimated 800,000 individuals killed in Rwanda in the mid-1990s.
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Source: networkworld.com
By: Ellen Messmer
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