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international criminal tribunal is
truly like, and what really makes
the Court’s staff – from the judges
and prosecutors to the
investigators and defense lawyers
– tick.
The movie “The Court”, directed
by Michele Gentile and Marcus
Vetter and released in 2013, is told
from the point of view of the
office of the first ICC prosecutor,
the Argentine lawyer Mr. Luis
Moreno-Ocampo, born in Buenos
Aires in 1952 and whose mandate
at the ICC ended in June 2012.
Following the prosecutor during
an inordinately complex juridical process as he worked to bring an array of warlords and genocidal
dictators to justice, the movie offers a dizzying snapshot of the
range of the ICC’s work and the horror of the crimes, as well as a
sense of Mr. Moreno-Ocampo's boundless energy. A magnetic man
fuelled by conviction, constantly on the move, from the killing
fields of Uganda, Darfur and the Congo to the war-torn streets of
Libya and Gaza, with regular visits to the UN Security Council.
In particular, the movie dips in and out the judiciary trial of Mr.
Thomas Lubanga, a Congolese warlord, from its start in 2009 to its
finish, when he was sentenced to 14 years imprisonment for forcing
children to serve as soldiers in Democratic Republic of Congo.
Despite the slow procedures of the ICC, for Mr. Moreno-Ocampo the conviction in 2012 of Thomas
Lubanga, was a historic triumph, and it forms the spine of the film.
Inviting you to watch this authentic movie, we wish you a good view, hoping it will give you the
chance to better understand the tenure and life of a man who was, more than anyone else, the face
of international criminal justice for almost a decade. For the great emotions we will feel, this
documentary deserves deep personal reflections and final acclaim.

Written by:
Capt Alberto Veronese
CoESPU Managing Editor

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