The Uncondemned — Film at 11
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In 1997, a group of lawyers and activists prosecuted rape as a crime against humanity. This is the story of their fight for the first conviction.
It was the first international tribunal since Nuremberg, and it was going badly. Lacking funds, under-staffed and living with the daily threat of bombs and kidnappings, the young men and women of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda felt that they were the “poor country cousin” to the International Criminal Tribunal for Yugoslavia at the Hague.
But in the race to become the first successful prosecution of rape as a war crime, the ICTR team would win—not just because of the disparate crew of prosecutors, activists, academics and criminal investigators who came together, but also because of a handful of women who, despite the brutality they experienced and the danger of reprisals, got on the first flight of their lives to have their day in court.
This is a feature-length documentary that traces the legal chase to a historic verdict—which included the first-ever conviction for genocide and for rape as a form of genocide. Shot in Rwanda, Democratic Republic of Congo, The Netherlands and the U.S., the film includes interviews with the first women to testify about rape as a war crime, as well as the genocidaires-turned-militia that committed the crimes.
Why call it “The Uncondemned”? Because that was what the perpetrators were after the Bosnia and Rwanda genocides—enjoying impunity while their victims felt shattered. Four years later, that would be reversed.
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