The following 6 articles, presented in a slide show format (scroll horizontally), are sorted by date of publication, from the oldest to the most recent.
Colombia: when seeking the truth leads to forced exile
In June 2022, Colombia’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission unveiled its ten-volume final report and closed its doors two months later. For one of its investigators, Eduardo Andrés Celis, who agreed to speak to Justice Info, that solemn act was not a turning point between a four-year dream job coming to an end and new opportunities, […]
“Kwoyelo was born and grew up here”
“I don’t know what interest government has in my son, not to release him,” Thomas Kwoyelo’s mother tells Justice Info in his home village of Acut Cama Ceri, nestled in tall, overgrown savanna in northern Uganda. The mother of the former Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) colonel arrested in 2008 has suffered a triple punishment: seeing […]
Nika, the Georgian international justice repentant
There are many who have been disappointed by international justice, but few who speak so frankly and draw such clear-cut conclusions. Nika Jeiranashvili was the face of Georgian civil society, in The Hague, during the International Criminal Court’s investigation on the 2008 Russian-Georgian war. Justice Info caught up with him in his vineyards in Kakhetia, […]
“The unconditional belief that you are good is dangerous”
Anyone can potentially become a perpetrator of mass atrocities says Alette Smeulers, professor at the University of Groningen, in The Netherlands. After a thirty years’ research, she developed a typology in which she distinguishes 14 different types of perpetrators of mass crimes.
Pascal Hamenyimana and the timid reintegration of a former “génocidaire”
Back in his village after serving a 15-year prison sentence for complicity in genocide, ex-convict Pascal Hamenyimana is gradually returning to a normal life, thanks to the welcome, the moral and financial support of several survivors, who have offered him shelter and a means of subsistence. Together, they plan to launch an agricultural cooperative of […]
Gibril Massaquoi tries for the jackpot
Former Sierra Leonean rebel commander Gibril Massaquoi, twice acquitted by the Finnish courts, has filed a claim for compensation totalling around 815,000 euros for his lengthy detention. He has also taken legal action in Liberia, where his lawyer has just been appointed head of the office responsible for setting up a war crimes tribunal...
