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The Jurisprudence of the Inter-American Court on Amnesty Laws

Quick fact

In the 2001 Barrios Altos case, the Inter-American Court declared Peru's amnesty laws to be incompatible with the American Convention, marking the first time it found a self-amnesty law to be without legal effect, violating the rights to justice and truth.

Why this is interesting

Imagine a law passed to forgive the worst atrocities—many countries have tried that. But what if an international court says that law is void, and the state has to open the cases anyway?