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.
Amzat Boukari-Yabara: “France, the United States and Brazil are the main bad guys on this issue of reparations”
18 June 2021
by Clémentine Méténier
JUSTICE INFO IN-DEPTH INTERVIEWS Amzat Boukari-Yabara Historian specialised in the African continent French historian Amzat Boukari-Yabara, a specialist on the African continent as well as Brazil, explores the international dimens [...]
17 June 2021
by Clémentine Méténier
The colonial past is back in the spotlight in many countries, from New Zealand to France, Canada to Germany, or Sweden to the Netherlands. Official apologies, demands for reparations and restitution of cultural heritage, truth com [...]
15 June 2021
by Janet H. Anderson
On Wednesday June 16, Fatou Bensouda is moving after 17 years in the two top jobs at the office of the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court. The new prosecutor, Karim Khan, comes fresh from setting up an investigative te [...]
15 June 2021
by Asymmetrical Haircuts
“At UNITAD, we are an investigative team on the lookout for a court,” says British lawyer Karim Khan after having led the Daesh / ISIL investigations for the last three years. The man who is about to take over this week from Gambi [...]
14 June 2021
by Ephrem Rugiririza
Brammertz: “South Africa is a haven for fugitive genocide suspects”
International prosecutor Serge Brammertz stepped up his tone on June 8 before the United Nations Security Council. He accused South Africa of protecting Fulgence Kayishema, a Rwandan genocide suspect who has been on the run for de [...]
11 June 2021
by Thierry Cruvellier
Gambia: Letter from the M’Bai family
Justice Info has received a letter from a family member of Fafa Edrissa M'Bai, a former Minister of Justice under the military junta in Gambia, in response to an article published on May 3. In the interests of transparency and fai [...]
10 June 2021
by Reinhart Kössler and Henning Melber
Namibian genocide: why Germany’s bid to make amends isn’t enough
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
26 years after the Bosnia war, Mladic case ends
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
Public Apologies in Angola, but for whom?
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
The inglorious end of the Lebanon tribunal
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 [...]