{"id":37032,"date":"2018-04-08T20:29:45","date_gmt":"2018-04-08T18:29:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/37032-week-in-review-victims-neglected-in-mali-gambia-and-tunisia.html"},"modified":"2018-04-08T20:29:45","modified_gmt":"2018-04-08T18:29:45","slug":"week-in-review-victims-neglected-in-mali-gambia-and-tunisia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/37032-week-in-review-victims-neglected-in-mali-gambia-and-tunisia.html","title":{"rendered":"Week in Review: Victims feel ignored in Mali, Gambia and Tunisia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>The appearance of the former Islamist police chief of Timbuktu (northern Mali) before the International Criminal Court (ICC) was a highlight of this week in transitional justice. \u201cAl Hassan\u201d\u00a0is suspected of war crimes and crimes against humanity and was transferred to the ICC from Mali on March 31.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Malian civil society expressed satisfaction at the appearance of this second Jihadist before the ICC. It comes after the\u00a0ICC\u2019s trial and conviction of Ahmad\u00a0Al-Faqi Al-Mahdi,\u00a0alias \u201cAbu Turab\u201d,\u00a0for the destruction of Timbuktu\u2019s cultural heritage during its occupation by the militant Jihadist group Ansar Dine.<\/p>\n<p>After giving the impression it was most interested in the town\u2019s religious heritage, the ICC is in this new case finally looking at serious violations against people, notably women, during the Jihadist occupation of northern Mali.<\/p>\n<p>But satisfaction is mixed with bitterness, as JusticeInfo\u2019s Bamako correspondent Bokar Sangar\u00e9 writes. \u201cAl Hassan\u2019s transfer to the ICC, after that of Al Faqi, appears to many as the trees that hide the forest of inadequacies of Mali\u2019s judicial system,\u201d he says. \u201cIn Timbuktu, people are protesting the fact that former members of the police are still free.\u201d And he quotes an inhabitant of Timbuktu as saying that \u201cAl Hassan is small fry who is to pay in the place of the big fish\u201d.<\/p>\n<h3>Similar concerns in Gambia\u00a0<\/h3>\n<p>There are similar concerns in Gambia, where victims of the former Jammeh dictatorship feel ignored by the new government of Adama Barrow, elected president in 2016. \u201cVictims tortured by the former regime do not feel sufficiently supported by the new administration,\u201d writes Maxime Domegni, JusticeInfo\u2019s special envoy to Gambia. \u201cThey have no sympathy for us, says Zeynab Lowe, whose soldier brother disappeared after his arrest in 2006 in a murky case of an alleged failed coup.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Victims represented in the Gambia Centre for Victims of Human Rights Violations think the government is not taking their concerns seriously, although thousands of Gambians still feel the effects of their suffering during the 22-year dictatorship. The Centre\u2019s leaders say they have only been received for a few minutes by an indifferent\u00a0President Barrow, whilst a minister has opposed the creation of a Truth Commission.<\/p>\n<h3>Old regime fights back in Tunisia\u00a0<\/h3>\n<p>There is the same regression in Tunisia, according to Eric Gobe of the Institute for Research on the Contemporary Maghreb (IRMC), which is attached to the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS). He says the \u201ccounter-revolutionary\u201d narrative maintained by members of the old regime is imposing itself more and more in the public space. \u201cThe proposed laws on economic and financial reconciliation, the law on administrative reconciliation and now parliament\u2019s refusal to extend the mandate of the Truth and Dignity Commission show that those in power want to put an end as quickly as possible to the action of the Tunisian Truth Commission,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The appearance of the former Islamist police chief of Timbuktu (northern Mali) before the International Criminal Court (ICC) was a highlight of this week in transitional justice. \u201cAl Hassan\u201d\u00a0is suspected of war crimes and crimes against humanity and was transferred to the ICC from Mali on March 31. 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