All Justice Info articles since 2015
All articles published on Justice Info (original and republications) are displayed on this page in chronological order. Only our Hirondelle News archives and the AFP news feed (except for dispatches edited by us) are excluded from this list.
Namibian genocide: why Germany’s bid to make amends isn’t enough
10 June 2021
by Reinhart Kössler and Henning Melber
On 28 May, Germany acknowledged that it committed genocide against the Herero and Namas peoples in Namibia between 1904 and 1908. Germany and Namibia signed an agreement that includes the payment of 1.1 billion euros over 30 years [...]
8 June 2021
by Stephanie van den Berg
Today Ratko Mladic, 78, will hear the final decision in the case against him. In 2017 the former head of the Bosnian Serb army was found guilty of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes by the UN International Criminal T [...]
7 June 2021
by Maarten van Munster and Joris van Wijk
It was a landmark speech. On May 26, Angola’s president apologized and asked forgiveness for mass executions that occurred in 1977. He also announced the returning of victims’ remains to their families and the issuance of death ce [...]
4 June 2021
by Janet H Anderson
On June 2, the Special Tribunal for Lebanon announced it would have to close by the end of July due to lack of funds. The next day it said all proceedings in a new trial due to open on June 16 were suspended. Lebanon is bankrupt a [...]
3 June 2021
by Rita Gay
Seychelles’ truth commission advocates for state reparations
Public hearings have resumed before the Truth, Reconciliation and National Unity Commission in Seychelles. Another three-month break due to the Covid-19 pandemic has further hampered the Commission’s work. But another challenge is [...]
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1 June 2021
by Justice Info
Hour of reckoning for colonial crimes
The colonial past has come back into the spotlight. Descendants of the colonized are demanding reparations. Former colonial powers, as if suddenly waking up, under pressure from changing power relations, are finally showing some w [...]
1 June 2021
by Mustapha K. Darboe
Gambia: When it is time for reconciliation
After more than two years of often spectacular public hearings, Gambia’s Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission closed its hearings on May 28. It will present its report and recommendations in July. But a lesser known as [...]
31 May 2021
by Janet H. Anderson
The bumpy road of truth-seeking in Northern Ireland
A two and half year investigation has just concluded on the complete innocence of ten civilians who were killed by the British army in 1971 in Northern Ireland. But the truth-seeking process in the UK province doesn’t satisfy all [...]
28 May 2021
by Olfa Belhassine
Tunisia: glimmers of hope in the Matmati trial
It is 30 years since the murder and disappearance of young Tunisian Islamist activist Kamel Matmati and three years since the trial for him opened, the first to be held before the specialized transitional justice chambers. On 25 M [...]
27 May 2021
by Ephrem Rugiririza
French president asks forgiveness from Rwandan genocide survivors
The French president began a visit to Rwanda on May 27. This historic visit should mark a new step to normalising relations between Paris and Kigali. Emmanuel Macron declared that he had come to recognise France’s “responsibilitie [...]
25 May 2021
by Janet H. Anderson
Whitewashing the sins of the state and the church in Ireland
In January, the report of an enquiry in the history of Ireland’s mother and baby homes was published. It intended to draw a line under last century’s notorious abuses in government and church-run institutions. Instead it has been [...]
21 May 2021
by Kelvin Lewis
Massaquoi: the battle of the alibi plays out in Sierra Leone
At full speed over the last ten days, a Finnish Court has heard 18 witnesses in the trial of rebel Revolutionary United Front member Gibril Massaquoi, accused of committing war crimes in neighbouring Liberia, in a series of hearin [...]
20 May 2021
by Mary de la Libertad Diaz Marquez
Why Colombia is a pioneer in restorative justice
In an innovative journey of transitional justice already well underway, Colombia is putting restorative justice to a test. It’s still a question to what extent this approach is embraced so that not only victims and perpetrators bu [...]
20 May 2021
by Asymmetrical Haircuts
Fatou Bensouda: “History will judge us”
Fatou Bensouda has given one of her last interviews as outgoing International Criminal Court Prosecutor to our correspondents and partners Asymmetrical Haircuts in The Hague. In this exclusive podcast, she talks about lessons lear [...]
18 May 2021
by Ephrem Rugiririza
Pauline, Shalom and Béatrice: genocide as a family affair in Butare
An emblematic family is back in the news, as Rwandan courts prepare to open the trial of Béatrice Munyenyezi, who was extradited from the United States last April. The accused is none other than the wife of Arsène Shalom Ntahobali [...]
17 May 2021
by André Guichaoua
In Rwanda, genocide commemorations are infused with political and diplomatic agendas
Rwandan President Paul Kagame is visiting Paris this Monday and Tuesday, amidst a warming of diplomatic relations between the two countries. French President Emmanuel Macron is expected to visit Kigali the following week. In this [...]
14 May 2021
by Kwasi Konadu
Slavery: what the United States can learn from Africa about reparations
In the United States, the House of Representatives’ Judiciary Committee voted on April 14, 2021, to recommend the creation of a commission to study the possibility of paying reparations to the descendants of enslaved people. Looki [...]
13 May 2021
by Mustapha K. Darboe
Gambia: Jammeh's justice and the shadow of Bensouda
This week in Gambia, the Truth Commission is ending probing the lawyers who established and entrenched the Yahya Jammeh dictatorship, without having called some of the most interesting witnesses. One of the elephants in the room i [...]