Carte Blanche

They don’t wear uni­forms or carry weapons; they have no body­guards. Yet their mis­sions take them to the most dan­ger­ous places on Earth. As in­ves­ti­ga­tors of the In­ter­na­tional Crim­i­nal Court they painstak­ingly gather ev­i­dence against those re­spon­si­ble for some of the most se­ri­ous crimes com­mit­ted in our time: in Dar­fur, Uganda, The De­mo­c­ra­tic Re­pub­lic of the Congo and – as the least known spot on the map of core crimes – in the Cen­tral African Re­pub­lic.
In 2002, a wave of vi­o­lence shook the Cen­tral African Re­pub­lic. Mil­i­tant rebels from neigh­bor­ing Congo re­ceived carte blanche from their leader Jean-Pierre Be­mba to kill, rape and pil­lage. The film „Carte Blanche” fol­lows the in­ves­ti­ga­tors of the first per­ma­nent in­ter­na­tional court into the heart of Africa. Eight years af­ter the vi­o­lence, jus­tice shall be done. And Jean-Pierre Be­mba – as one of the first com­man­ders be­ing pros­e­cuted be­fore an in­ter­na­tional tri­bunal for his com­mand re­spon­si­bil­ity for sys­tem­atic rape – is to be put on trial. (http://www.carteblanche-thefilm.com/synopsis.html)