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.
Why Kabuga is no longer accused of importing machetes for genocide
30 March 2021
by Ephrem Rugiririza and Emmanuel Sehene Ruvugiro
Widely dubbed "the financier of the genocide," Rwandan Félicien Kabuga has carried with him since the 1994 genocide a heavy reputation for ordering machetes used to kill Tutsis. This central charge, however, has disappeared from t [...]
26 March 2021
by Julia Crawford
On Tuesday March 23, the United Nations Human Rights Council adopted a new resolution on Sri Lanka, including a new mandate and budget to collect evidence of war crimes. This followed a damning report to the Council by the High Co [...]
25 March 2021
by Janet H. Anderson
Over the last month, the International Criminal Court prosecution has laid out its strategy against two leaders of the Anti-balaka, a Central African Republic group of civil defence militias. The backbone of the accusation is that [...]
23 March 2021
by Janet H. Anderson
Some of those who support Israel see the International Criminal Court (ICC) as an existential threat. Here is a first set of ten obstacles that the Hague Court, which has taken a fight with a muscular opponent in the most heated r [...]
22 March 2021
by Asymmetrical Haircuts
Is there a political will to prevent the Uyghurs from genocide?
Uyghurs detained in Chinese camps are subjected to torture, forced labour and sterilization. This week, our partners from Asymmetrical Haircuts have invited two experts – Dr Melanie O’Brien from the University of Western Australia [...]
22 March 2021
by Sharon Weill
Transitional justice, Israel's escape door from the ICC
Israel's positioning towards the International Criminal Court (ICC) can be situated somewhere in between the position of the US - which completely delegitimizes the institution - and the UK, which cooperates fully, explains p [...]
19 March 2021
by Thierry Cruvellier
Massaquoi trial: the date that can change everything
The Finnish court trying Gibril Massaquoi in Liberia finished the first part of its hearings on March 16, devoted to crimes that the accused allegedly committed in Monrovia at the end of the civil war. Of the 21 witnesses heard, o [...]
16 March 2021
by Julia Crawford
Is there still hope for Nepal’s flawed transitional justice process?
In some six years, the results of Nepal’s two transitional justice bodies are slim. With former combatants from both sides still in positions of power, critics denounce a lack of political will to deal with the legacy of the count [...]
15 March 2021
by Joseph Mbuyi
Accused faces victims in first Kasai war crimes trial
On March 10, the war crimes trial of traditional leader Nsumbu, a former militia leader, opened in the Congolese village of Nkongolo Moshi in Kasai Central. This is the first trial for international crimes in this province of the [...]
12 March 2021
by Asymmetrical Haircuts
How the military coup in Myanmar impacts international justice
A year ago Aung San Suu Kyi was in The Hague defending Myanmar against accusations of genocide before the International Court of Justice (ICJ). Now she is under house arrest following a military coup last month. What does the coup [...]
12 March 2021
by Marion Volkmann-Brandau and Toufah Jallow
Sexual violence: Gambia’s Truth Commission must not miss its last chance
The Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission in Gambia has under-investigated and missed acknowledging sexual violence under Yahya Jammeh’s dictatorship, Marion Volkmann-Brandau, human rights lawyer, and Toufah Jallow, Gam [...]
11 March 2021
by Mustapha K. Darboe
Gambia: The story of a government-sanctioned massacre and its cover-up
After establishing that the July 2005 massacre of more than 50 West African migrants was perpetrated by state authorities, Gambia’s Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission has exposed the government’s cover-up that follow [...]
9 March 2021
by Andrés Bermúdez Liévano
Colombia: the ‘false positive’ number that sets off a political storm
Colombia’s Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP) has published key findings, including an incomplete and stunning number of civilians murdered by the military and passed off as rebels killed in combat – the infamous “false positive [...]
8 March 2021
by Antoine Harari
Judgment awaited in Alieu Kosiah war crimes trial
The trial of former Liberian rebel fighter Alieu Kosiah ended on March 5 in Switzerland. Accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in the early 1990s in Liberia, Kosiah denied being present at the time of the eve [...]
5 March 2021
by Thierry Cruvellier
The Massaquoi Trial: Double or quits before a Finnish court
The first hearings in Gibril Massaquoi’s trial before a Finnish court temporarily relocated to Liberia have outlined the controversial shape of the case. The prosecution is counting on mass witness testimony, while the defence is [...]
4 March 2021
by Ephrem Rugiririza
Burundi’s TRC presents divisive activity report
In 2020, the work of Burundi's Truth and Reconciliation Commission focused on the 1972 massacres, which primarily targeted Hutus. These were grave events, but choosing this period as a priority only fuels accusations that the comm [...]
2 March 2021
by Mustapha K. Darboe
Gambia: Did Jammeh order the killing of migrants?
This is the largest massacre committed during the 22 years of Yahya Jammeh's reign in the Gambia. More than fifty migrants were executed in July 2005. Clear evidence that it was carried out on the orders of the government was so f [...]
1 March 2021
by Asymmetrical Haircuts
Justice for Liberia is on the map at last
It has been a very long wait for Liberians to begin to see some accountability on the many crimes committed during their two civil wars between 1989 and 2003. And the change of trend has come from outside the country. After a few [...]