Max Pearson
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1,342 appearances
10 recordings
1 series
first heard Dec 2025
last heard 11 Apr
Max Pearson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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There's different kinds of justice, isn't there?
The justice that a criminal proceeding brings is accountability for what you've done.
You do it, you own it.
You say it, you own it.
But there are other forms of justice that a criminal justice system can't bring.
You can give them prosthetics but you can never regrow their arms.
You can remove scars, but you can never take away the memory and can never remove from women and girls the impact of violence on them and their lives.
So you can never make a person totally whole, but you can hold people accountable.
And ultimately, I think holding leaders responsible reinforces that with power and authority comes accountability.
That form of justice was delivered in this case.
The chief prosecutor in the trial of Charles Taylor, Brenda Hollis, was speaking to Jane Wilkinson.
Charles Taylor was sentenced to 50 years in prison for aiding and abetting crimes against humanity.
As we heard, the wars in Sierra Leone and Liberia were fuelled by the desire for natural diamonds.
But there have been attempts to bypass that market through the creation of synthetic diamonds.
James Evans is a gemologist and the author of The History of Synthetic Ruby.
So tell us first, James, about the Kimberley Process.
What is the Kimberley Process?
The Kimberley Process was established in 2003 by the UN.
So that's shortly after the Civil War in Sierra Leone.
It's an attempt to ensure conflict diamonds don't enter the marketplace.
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