{"id":37627,"date":"2018-05-28T12:58:23","date_gmt":"2018-05-28T10:58:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/37627-week-in-review-views-on-the-icc-and-violence-in-mali.html"},"modified":"2018-05-28T12:58:23","modified_gmt":"2018-05-28T10:58:23","slug":"week-in-review-views-on-the-icc-and-violence-in-mali","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/37627-week-in-review-views-on-the-icc-and-violence-in-mali.html","title":{"rendered":"Week in Review: Views on the ICC and violence in Mali"},"content":{"rendered":"

Once again this week, questions have been raised about current models of transitional justice and reconciliation procedures. Justice Info spoke to three lawyers and activists from Burundi, C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire and Georgia, who shared their views on the International Criminal Court (ICC). These three perspectives<\/a> shine a light on the Court\u2019s impact and its failures.<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0<\/p>\n

Burundian lawyer Lambert Nigarura, listed as an \u201cenemy of the country\u201d and in exile since 2015, says \u201cthe regime is afraid of the Court\u201d after the ICC launched investigations Burundi\u2019s leaders for alleged crimes against humanity. Expressing a positive view of the ICC, the lawyer thinks that \u201cjustice can be done\u201d despite the obstacles strewn in its path by the regime in Bujumbura.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Eric-Aim\u00e9 Semien, president of the Ivoirian Human Rights Observatory (OIDH), is much more critical. He says the ICC is only bringing to justice former president Gbagbo and one of his close aides. \u201cIn order to have real reconciliation, let us hope that the prosecutions be balanced against both sides,\u201d he says. \u201cThe ICC should be thinking about this every day in its work.\u201d Semien also criticizes the extreme slowness of ICC trials. The one against Gbagbo has, for example, been ongoing for more than two years.<\/p>\n

There is the same dissatisfaction on the part of Georgian lawyer Nika\u00a0Jeiranashvili, who came to The Hague three years ago when the ICC opened investigations on the Russia Georgia war<\/a> of 2008. He criticizes \u201cthe unbelievable distance between the Court and realities on the ground\u201d. Indeed, after three years, the investigations seem at a standstill, while victims are still demanding justice.<\/p>\n

In Mali, the reconciliation process seems under threat from a dangerous escalation of violence. Researchers Yvan Guichaoua and Dougoukolo Alpha Oumar Ba-Konar\u00e9 talked to Justiceinfo.net <\/a>about recent events. Guichaoua questions the \u201cpragmatic choice of associating with the community militias (...) and failure to anticipate the effects of this anti-terrorist struggle on the social fabric\u201d. Dougoukolo Alpha Oumar Ba-Konar\u00e9 points to the same problem. \u201cEverything is put secondary to a totally militarist vision,\u201d he says. \u201cIt is true that without security there can be no plan for development and integrating people in development and socio-political mechanisms. But those things can be the key to bring more security.\u201d<\/p>\n

Finally to Tunisia, where transitional justice is also struggling. On May 18, the Truth and Dignity Commission nevertheless transferred its first case linked to victims of the January 2011 Revolution to the special criminal chamber in Kasserine. \u201cThis is an important step in Tunisia\u2019s difficult progress towards transitional justice,\u201d according to Amna Guellali, director of the Human Rights Watch office in Tunis. As the country prepares for this first emblematic trial, HRW is calling for Tunisia to introduce new provisions on \u201ccommand responsibility\u201d into its Penal Code, \u201cin line with international legal definitions\u201d, so as to ensure that the people who actually ordered crimes do not escape justice. \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Once again this week, questions have been raised about current models of transitional justice and reconciliation procedures. Justice Info spoke to three lawyers and activists from Burundi, C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire and Georgia, who shared their views on the International Criminal Court (ICC). 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