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Afghanistan: NGO urges ICC not to forget Guantanamo crimes
5 February 2018 by Stéphanie Maupas, correspondent in The Hague
A human rights NGO has called on the International Criminal Court (ICC) to extend its likely investigations on Afghanistan to crimes committed at Guantanamo. On November 20, 2017, ICC Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda asked the court’s  j [...]
Week in Review: Testing times for TJ from Kosovo to Burundi
5 February 2018 by François Sergent JusticeInfo.net
This was a bad week for transitional justice, in Kosovo, Tunisia and Burundi. In Kosovo, the authorities are trying to stop the special tribunal charged with trying war crimes committed by UCK rebels between 1998 -2000, explains P [...]
Will contested Kosovo tribunal ever get off the ground?
1 February 2018 by Pierre Hazan, JusticeInfo editorial advisor and professor at Neuchâtel University
Is the Kosovo war crimes tribunal dead before it even begins? Parliamentarians close to the country’s President and Prime Minister are trying to sabotage it. Meanwhile Switzerland has granted it funding support. In January 2018, S [...]
Opinion: Klaus Barbie and Burundi’s Truth Commission
30 January 2018 by Louis-Marie Nindorera, Burundian consultant on transitional justice
January 27 was International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Seventy years on and thousands of miles from where it happened, this day for prevention of crimes against humanity also has resonance in Burundi. Louis-Marie Nindorera is a B [...]
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29 January 2018 by SITHU AUNG MYINT | FRONTIER
Myanmar: A mass grave, an unprecedented admission and a few unanswered questions The unprecedented admission by the Tatmadaw (Myanmar national army) that security forces were involved in unlawfully killing Muslims in Rakhine State may have implications for plans to repatriate verified refugees from Bangladesh. [...]
29 January 2018 by François Sergent JusticeInfo.net
Week in Review: Gambia, Mali, Tunisia and Iraq Transitional justice is moving forward in Gambia with the setting up of a Truth Commission.  The Commission’s task will be no less than to “mend the tissue of Gambian society, torn apart by 22 years of iron-fisted rule under ex-di [...]
25 January 2018 by Pierre Hazan, JusticeInfo editorial advisor and professor at Neuchâtel University
Iraq: “Saving manuscripts is also saving people” What is the point of saving culture if you can’t save people? That seems a derisory question in the spiral of violence hitting Iraq and Syria for years. But not for Father Najeeb. He has managed to save thousands of precious manus [...]
25 January 2018 by The Conversation
I visited the Rohingya refugee camps and here is what Bangladesh is doing right Nearly 1 million Rohingya refugees have entered Bangladesh from Myanmar since September 2017. The Bangladeshi government’s plan to start repatriating them beginning this Tuesday, Jan. 22, has been postponed due to concerns about t [...]
25 January 2018 by Maxime Domegni, West Africa correspondent
No reconciliation without justice, say Gambia’s victims As Gambia’s new authorities prepare to launch a Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission, victims warn that there will be no reconciliation without justice. The process leading to the appointment of 11 Commission members i [...]
23 January 2018 by ICTJ
A Practitioners' Perspective on Forms of Justice in Peru and Colombia Jairo Rivas has a decade of experience working with reparations forms. In the aftermath of Peru’s internal armed conflict, Rivas helped distribute reparations to thousands of victims as Technical Secretary of the Reparations Counc [...]
23 January 2018 by Human Rights Watch
Kabul Hotel Attack a "War Crime", says HRW This weekend’s attack on the Intercontinental Hotel was just the latest in a long string of incidents targeting civilians in Afghanistan. Those who ordered or carried out this serious violation of the laws of war are responsible f [...]
23 January 2018 by AFP
Syrian chemical weapons attacks Since the start of the conflict in Syria in 2011, the belligerents -- in particular the regime of President Bashar al-Assad -- have been accused on numerous occasions of using chemical weapons. Here is a summary. - Damascus threat [...]
22 January 2018 by François Musseau (Madrid)
Salvadoran army colonel faces justice in Spain He no longer has the same charisma or the same look as he did when he was part of El Salvador’s army élite. At 74, former colonel Inocente Montano is still tall, but as he comes to the special high court in Madrid (Audiencia Nacio [...]
22 January 2018 by Ephrem Rugiririza, JusticeInfo.Net
Week in Review: Hope in Guinea, disappointment in Togo, impunity in Burundi Will justice be done in Guinea in the very sensitive case of the September 28, 2009 massacre of 150 people in a stadium in the capital Conakry? This looks more likely after investigations closed in December 2017 and the suspects w [...]
19 January 2018 by Human Rights Watch
Burundi: "Impunity for serious crimes remains the norm" The Burundi government continued its repression of real and perceived political opponents in 2017, according to the annual report of Human Rights Watch published on January 18. This included murder, forced disappearance, torture a [...]
19 January 2018 by The Conversation
Living through the horrors of genocide: humanitarian workers in Rwanda They are on the frontlines of any major conflict or disaster – but how much is known about the daily experiences of humanitarian workers in these extreme situations? In their new book, Génocide et crimes de masse. L’expérience rwa [...]
18 January 2018 by Frontier
This is not Myanmar’s path to peace Myanmar's government runs the risk of ceding so much control to the Tatmadaw (national army) that it simply becomes irrelevant to the peace process. The next 21st Century Panglong Union Peace Conference is supposed to be just a fe [...]
17 January 2018 by Aïssatou Barry in Conakry
Will Guinea hold trial this year for 2009 stadium massacre?   In Guinea, investigations into the September 2009 massacre in Conakry have finally closed, seven years after the event. Announcing this on December 29, 2017, Guinean Justice Minister Cheik Sacko said the suspects have been refer [...]
15 January 2018 by Ram Kumar Bhandari
Nepal's TJ commissions need political will, not just more time On January 5, 2018, Nepal’s cabinet decided to extend the tenure of the country’s two transitional justice (TJ) bodies for another year. But this was done without consulting primary stakeholders and without evaluating the work of [...]