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  BENJAMIN FERENCZ: MAN TO REMEMBER   ‘ The case we present is a plea of humanity to law’ . This is the opening remark of the Einsatzgruppen trial (9 th of the 12 Nuremberg trial) and 60 years later the closing prosecution speech of the Congolese warlord Thomas Lubanga Dyilo(the first ever trial heard before the International Criminal Court); both by the same prosecutor Benjamin Ferencz.   On April 7 th 2023) Benjamin Ferencz, the last surviving prosecutor of the Nuremberg trials (1946) passed away. Called as the greatest trial in the world history and a watershed for modern law, the verdict called the atrocities committed by the accused as the most barbarous and inhuman ‘crimes against humanity’. The recognition of human rights in the trial further led to the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights. While the trial itself is controversial at many fronts, today’s attempt is to pay homage to Ferencz who took upon himself to advocate for human rights. Nurember...