premeditation, an intentionality that led to the perpetration of the massacres. In synthesis, in the efforts to achieve a restorative justice, the profound traumatic effects of the massacres, not only and obviously on the victims and their next of kin, but also on the social fabric itself, on the population affected by the massacres as a whole, must necessarily be taken into consideration. 73. It if of great importance that the victims of massacres and people in situations of the utmost adversity (such as, inter alia, those detained in infra-human conditions), are currently able to reach international jurisdiction in order to assert their rights. This fact, hard to anticipate some decades ago, - reveals the progress of International Human Rights Law in the midst of so many difficulties. This constitutes, in my opinion, one of the manifestations of the humanization of contemporary International Law, which also reveals the impact of International Human Rights Law within International Public Law and, finally, what I would define as the current evolution of International Law towards the People’s Law.57 74. This evolution comes to rescue the roots of humanist thinking, and its flourishing throughout time, in the middle of successive atrocities perpetrated by individuals against their fellow men. Remember, for example, that at the end of the XVIII century (in 1793), in a brilliant essay written a little before being executed, Condorcet warned that there was "une science du droit des gens: mais malhereusement on chercha des lois des nations, non dans la raison et la nature (...). On s'occupa moins des droits de l'humanité, de la justice envers les individus, que de l'ambition, de l'orgueil ou de l'avidité des gouvernements."58 However, he added with admirable hope that "les principes de la philosophie, les maximes de la liberté, la connaissance des véritables droits de l'homme et de ses intérêts réels, sont répandus dans un trop grand nombre des nations, et dirigent dans chacune d'elles les opinions d'un trop grand nombre d'hommes éclairés, pour qu'on puisse redouter de les voir jamais tomber dans l'oubli."59 2. The Protection of Human Rights in the Midst of the Fight Against Terrorism. 75. The present case of the Castro Castro Prison is not the first in which the matter of the protection of human rights in the midst of a prolonged situation of a fight against . Cf., in this regard, my recent study: A.A. Cançado Trindade, Évolution du Droit international au droit des gens - L'accès des individus à la justice internationale: Le regard d'un juge, Paris, Pédone, 2008, pp. 1-188. 57 . Condorcet, Esquisse d'un tableau historique des progrès de l'esprit humain [1793], Paris, Flammarion, 1988 [reed.], p. 201. 58 . 59 Ibid., p. 259. 21