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1. Looking to keep transitional justice archives safe? Call the Swiss: ... evidence to continue to exist,” she says. Thijs Bouwknegt, a Dutch transitional justice expert at the NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies agrees that what is done is often “too littl ...
2. Dominic Ongwen: the ICC’s Poster and Problem Child: ... so opposite, morally complex and riddled with paradoxes, say historian Thijs Bouwknegt and criminologist Barbora Holá, who describe how the Ongwen saga seems “both the ICC’s success story and antithesis ...
3. Ongwen trial: can the victims see a light at the end of the road?: ... Initiative. Or further back, here’s a piece from Stephanie on how the prosecution has made its arguments and one from Janet looking ahead to the defence case. Or this great article from Thijs Bouwkneg ...
4. Tricky task for Belgian jurors to judge a Rwandan for genocide: ... in 1994. Scholar and former journalist Thijs Bouwknegt looks at the odd nature of war crimes trials under universal jurisdiction. Dark, cold and heavy clouds loom over foggy, grey Brussels. A large ...
5. Plot twists at the ICC for Jean-Pierre Bemba: ... Other property seized but not frozen included six planes in Kinshasa, a couple more villas, a Boeing 727 aircraft and a river cruiser. Thijs Bouwknegt researcher at NIOD Institute and assistant professor ...
6. Gbagbo – an acquittal foretold: ... Scholar Thijs Bouwknegt goes back into a case that has shaken the ICC and exposed a highly vexed Office of the Prosecutor. The writing was on the wall from the beginning, he says. On 28 February 2013, ...
7. Ivory Coast ex-strongman Gbagbo in shock ICC acquittal: ... hink what it could possibly achieve," Thijs Bouwknegt, an international law specialist, told AFP. The ICC was set up in 2002 to try the world's worst crimes including war crimes and crime ...
8. War crimes court to rule on release of Ivory Coast's Gbagbo: ... e. "I found it a worrisome signal," Thijs Bouwknegt, an international law specialist, told AFP. - 'He'll just disappear' - Previous attempts at the ICC to ...
9. Gbagbo: Is there a case to answer?: ... what the prosecution’s story for this case is,” said Thijs Bouwknegt, assistant professor of the University of Amsterdam who has followed the trial closely. The “farfetched” scenario of a common plan ...
10. Week in Review (from 17 to 22/09/2018): ... cases that “child soldiers are traumatized by default, just by being child soldiers”, University of Amsterdam assistant professor Thijs Bouwknegt says. Ongwen’s mental health and Kony’s “spiritualism” ...
11. Dominic Ongwen, the imperfect poster child of the ICC: ... to The Hague, this former abductee turned LRA henchman has been the prosecution’s Uganda poster child. A perpetrator and a victim The case against him was “well investigated”, says Thijs Bouwknegt, ...
12. Hariri suspects absent as Lebanon tribunal nears climax: ... it is always bitter when you can't put a face to violence," said Thijs Bouwknegt, a lawyer specialising in international criminal law. "A court without defendants risks being a joke." ...