Sat 28 March 2026
Conversation with the professor Marieke de Hoon
The screening of Soldier’s Bones will be followed by the conversation with Dr. Marieke de Hoon, an Associate Professor in International Criminal Law at the University of Amsterdam and Movies that Matter artistic director Margje de Koning.
Dr. Marieke de Hoon’s reserach focuses on the digitalisation and transnationalization of atrocity crimes investigations in conflicts like Syria and Ukraine, and how this impacts the prosecution of international crimes. She is moreover Director of the Amsterdam Center for Criminal Justice (ACCJ) and Senior Counsel at the Public International Law & Policy Group (PILPG).
The event will be in English.
Soldier’s Bones
In 1971, young Newsweek reporter Alec Shimkin discovered a secret US military campaign that committed war crimes on an enormous scale in the Mekong Delta. It was code-named Operation Speedy Express. Following the 1968 My Lai massacre on Vietnamese civilians, Alec believed this “Super My Lai” also had to be exposed.For ...
Speakers
Marieke de Hoon
expert
Margje de Koning
moderator