On my first day at the ICTR in 2005 I met with an external relations officer. ‘I haven’t sold my soul to the devil yet’ he told me, ‘but there are plenty of people willing to raise the flag and let it flutter in the wind’. He handed me a pamphlet entitled ‘ICTR: Challenging Impunity’. ‘Here’s the propaganda’ he said, and told me to go and speak to a particular prosecutor, who would, he predicted, give me the ‘official line’ that ‘He claims that a purpose of the ICTR is deterrence. But, just look what’s happening in Darfur’ waving his hand northwards. ‘This place is a salve for the conscience of an organization that could have done something in 1994.’