HISTORY ON TRIAL: AUDIO LINKS
SOUTH AFRICA: TRUTH AND RECONCILIATION,
Talk of the Nation,
April 21, 2004. The tenth anniversary of South Africa's first democratic
elections becomes the occasion for a roundtable to discuss that nation's unique
experiment in coming to terms with the past.
JUSTICE ON TRIAL, American RadioWorks,
July 2002. Michael Montgomery, Stephen Smith and Deborah George offer an
in-depth examination of the concept of war crimes tribunals through case studies
of Nuremberg and the more recent trials involving the Yugoslav wars and the
Rwandan Genocide.
TRIAL OF SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC,
RadioWorks, January 2002. A special documentary by Michael
Montgomery at the beginning of the war crimes trial of the former Serbian
President.
"BURNING
THE EVIDENCE," American RadioWorks,
October, 2001. A report by Michael Montgomery and Stephen Smith
investigating charges that Slobodan Milosevic ordered the cover up of murders of
ethnic Albanians in northern Kosovo.
TRUTH AND RECONCILIATION, Connection, April 9, 2001. The speaking of "unspeakable truths" after civil wars or when dictators fall.
CAMBODIA/KHMER ROUGE, Talk
of the Nation, March 11, 1999. Host Ray Suarez and guest Loung Ung and
Elizabeth Becker discuss whether a national or international tribunal can lead
to justice and/or reconciliation for the the 1970s-era genocide.
ARCHBISHOP DESMOND TUTU,
Talk of the Nation, November 23, 1998. Host Ray Suarez talks with the
South African Civil Rights leader about the Truth and Reconciliation Commission
and what other countries might learn from it.
SLAVE
LABOR, All Things
Considered, September 6, 1998. Historian Christopher Simpson, the
author of Splendid Blond Beast: Money, Law and Genocide in the Twentieth
Century, is interviewed about the law suits initiated against Volkswagen and
other German companies for their use of slave labor during World War II.
COLLECTIVE GUILT, Talk of
the Nation, May 21, 1996. Historian Daniel Goldhagen and journalist
Misha Glenny discuss the relationship between individual and national guilt for
war crimes.