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We have an intuitive sense of justice, of right and wrong. And yet I struggle to endorse the emerging genre of genocide documentaries \u2015 exemplified by the work of Joshua Oppenheimer \u2015 and the political campaigns that accompany many of these popular productions. I agree with Makau Mutua, a Kenyan-American professor of law, that the human rights corpus is experimental, incomplete, and has the potential to reproduce a type of cultural dispossession that is reminiscent of colonial times (in Africa, or Southeast Asia). In other words, we need to question the extent to which modern human rights campaigns are premised on an illegitimate normative (Eurocentric) framework. Celebrity filmmaker Joshua Oppenheimer has brought the human rights \u2018crusade\u2019 to Indonesia in a most spectacular way. 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