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When translation work becomes moral complicity

I've been translating for war crimes tribunals for three years and last week I realized I've been helping prosecute people from my own ethnic group while my family thinks I'm just doing legal work.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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You're caught between professional duty and ethnic loyalty in a system that treats justice as neutral.

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“Where Are You with International law and its limits?”

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