This article explores the role of time in obfuscating the criminality of international crimes committed through the cumulative effects of various actions that, on their own, appear banal and seemingly non-criminal in nature. It demonstrates how assessments of individual culpability continue to predominantly focus on the identification of discrete transactions that are intuitively recognizable as criminal in nature. This approach helps perpetuate the obfuscation of the criminality of slow, unfamiliar atrocity processes lacking easily identifiable moments of criminality. The selective recognition of atrocity crimes in Cambodia during the Khmer Rouge period and post-independence Myanmar are analyzed as examples of this failure to recognize the criminality of international crimes committed through slow, attritive means.

本文探讨了时间在混淆通过各种行为的累积影响所犯下的国际罪行的犯罪性方面的作用，这些行为本身就显得平庸和看似非犯罪。它展示了对个人罪责的评估如何继续主要侧重于识别可直观识别为犯罪性质的离散交易。这种方法有助于使人们对缓慢、不熟悉的暴行过程中缺乏容易识别的犯罪时刻的犯罪行为进行混淆。有选择地承认红色高棉时期柬埔寨和缅甸独立后的暴行罪被分析为未能承认通过缓慢、有吸引力的手段犯下的国际罪行的犯罪行为的例子。