Kenyan refugees seek justice

“Life here is terrible. Our children are dying from the extreme cold. We are refugees in our own country,” says a resident of the Ya Mumbi Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) camp in Kenya’s Northern Rift valley region. Three years after violence swept the country following the December 2007 elections, Kenya clearly still struggles in its aftermath. More... >

A trial for Habré?

Will the Chadian victims of Hissène Habré’s regime finally achieve justice? After a successful donors’ meeting to finance his trial in Dakar, and a curious legal decision by the ECOWAS calling for a special court to try the former dictator, the answer depends more than ever on the political will of Senegal, where Habré has lived since his fall 20 years ago. More... >

Sudan braces for referendum

Justice has always been a rare commodity in Sudan, and the imminent divorce between North and South Sudan will not necessarily lead to democracy and more human rights. Southern Sudan will be a fragile state and the North will probably become more autocratic. Meanwhile, the war in Darfur may even reignite. More... >

TRC rather than ICC for Uganda?

Almost seven years after Uganda gave the names of the top Lord’s Resistance Army commanders to the International Criminal Court, the country remains divided as to which path should be taken towards justice. Some Ugandan public figures are again calling for the formation of a truth and reconciliation body. More... >

Ocampo names Kenyans post election violence suspects

The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court on Wednesday named six Kenyans, including two top politicians and a journalist, he suspects of masterminding the 2007-08 post-election violence that claimed more than 1300 lives.

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Stakes are high at STL

Herman von Hebel has been appointed registrar of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL), also known as the Hariri Tribunal. The Dutchman, in an interview with the International Justice Tribune, says his appointment this week comes at a very important time for this first international terrorism tribunal. More... >

Croatia arrests war crimes suspect

Croatian police in Zagreb on December 8th arrested a former senior Interior Ministry official on suspicion of committing war crimes against Serb civilians at the start of the country’s independence war in the early 1990s. More... >

ICC examines North Korea

The International Criminal Court (ICC) has opened a preliminary investigation into possible war crimes committed by North Korean forces on South Korean territory. More... >

ICC hears evidence in Darfur case

Prosecutors at the International Criminal Court (ICC) last week accused two Sudanese rebels of executing an attack in 2007 on African Union peacekeepers (AMIS) that killed 12 and wounded eight others in the Darfur village of Haskanita. More... >

ICTY cuts Serb murder sentence

The Yugoslav war crimes tribunal on Wednesday reduced to ten years the prison sentence of a Serbian major convicted of involvement in the murder of prisoners of war in Croatia, following a new witness statement. More... >

States must catch Rwandan, Yugoslav war crimes suspects

The cooperation of states is crucial to capturing fugitive war criminals from Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia such as Ratko Mladic, tribunal prosecutors told the United Nations Security Council on Monday. More... >