The potential of international criminal trials to express the wrongfulness of mass atrocities and instil norms of appropriate behaviour within communities has been subject to a lively theoretical debate. This article makes an important empirical contribution by examining the limitations to the expressivist aspiration of international criminal justice in the context of the message communicated by the International Criminal Court’s Office of the Prosecutor (ICC-OTP) in the Ongwen case. A detailed analysis of the selection of charges, modes of liability, and the overall presentation of the Prosecutor’s arguments at trial suggests that the ICC-OTP’s limited capabilities to apprehend suspects and its dependency on state co-operation risk the excessive stigmatization of the few defendants available for trial for the purpose of demonstrating the Court’s capability of prosecuting notorious criminals. As the only apprehended commander from the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), Dominic Ongwen has been presented by the ICC-OTP as the ‘cause’ of crimes committed in Northern Uganda without due regard for the degree of his alleged involvement in those crimes compared to other LRA commanders, the role of other actors in the conflict, or the significance of his own victimization as a child. Ongwen’s excessive stigmatization expressed the importance of the Ugandan investigation after a decade of showing no results. Yet, it also produced a simplistic narrative which failed to express the complexity of violence in Northern Uganda.

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表达什么？Ongwen案中被告的污名化与国际刑事法院的制度利益

国际刑事审判表达大规模暴行的不法性和在社区内灌输适当行为规范的潜力一直受到热烈的理论辩论的影响。本文通过在国际刑事法院检察官办公室 (ICC-OTP) 在翁文案子。对指控的选择、责任模式以及检察官在审判中的整体陈述的详细分析表明，ICC-OTP 逮捕嫌疑人的能力有限及其对国家合作的依赖可能会导致少数被告受到过度的污名化可供审判以证明法院有能力起诉臭名昭著的罪犯。作为上帝抵抗军 (LRA) 中唯一被捕的指挥官，多米尼克·翁文 (Dominic Ongwen) 被 ICC-OTP 列为在乌干达北部犯罪的“起因”，而没有适当考虑他涉嫌参与这些犯罪的程度。其他上帝抵抗军指挥官，其他行动者在冲突中的作用，或他自己作为儿童受害的重要性。Ongwen 的过度污名化表达了在十年没有结果之后对乌干达进行调查的重要性。然而，它也产生了一个简单的叙述，未能表达乌干达北部暴力的复杂性。