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IJT 97 contents:
| Guantanamo: no end in sight? | ||
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Eight years ago this week, the American detention centre on the shore of Cuba’s Guantanamo Bay welcomed its first shackled, hooded prisoners, in their now notorious orange jumpsuits – alleged enemy combatants in America’s ‘war on terror’. Since it opened on January 12th, 2002, some 775 detainees have been brought to the prison. Around 450 have been released without charge and over 200 men are still being held. |
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| Gacaca: Rwanda’s grassroots justice | ||
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Fifteen years on, Rwandans are still reliving the genocide. Every week, scores of people around the country attend the community-based Gacaca trials of alleged génocidaires in their communities. A report from Rwanda. |
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| Lubanga trial: "This monster stole my childhood" | ||
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The trial of ex-Congolese warlord Thomas Lubanga Dyilo resumed last week at the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague. The founder and former leader of the Union of Congolese Patriots was a key player in the Ituri conflict and stands accused of using child soldiers. |
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| Interview Antonio Cassese: “Protecting human dignity” | ||
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Antonio Cassese was the first president of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and is now head of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL). He just announced that he will visit Lebanon in the coming weeks to complete the investigation into the assassination of former prime minister Rafiq Hariri. He spoke to the IJT’s Sebastiaan Gottlieb. |
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| SCSL faces financial constraints | ||
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Prosecutors at the Special Court for Sierra Leone resumed their cross-examination of former Liberian president Charles Taylor on Monday. Taylor has been testifying in his own defence since July, 2009. |
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| IDF officers avoid UK | ||
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Four senior officers of the Israel Defense Forces, scheduled to visit the United Kingdom this month, cancelled their trip at the last minute for fear of being arrested or indicted on arrival in the country. This follows the recent arrest warrant issued by a UK court against Israel’s former foreign minister, Tzipi Livni. The warrant focused on her role in Israel’s Gaza offensive last year. |
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| ICC: “use of child soldiers abuse” | ||
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Children cannot consent to their own exploitation, making the use of children in warfare “particularly abusive,” an expert witness told the International Criminal Court (ICC) at the trial of Thomas Lubanga Dyilo which resumed last Thursday. Lubanga is accused of enlisting child soldiers into his militia - the Union of Congolese Patriots - during Congo’s Ituri conflict. |
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| Radical Hutus killed Rwandan president | ||
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Hutu extremists shot down the plane carrying former Rwandan president Juvenal Habyarimana in 1994, says the Rwandan government. An official report issued on Monday found that members of Habyarimana’s inner-circle planned his murder in order to scuttle a power-sharing deal with former rebel leader Paul Kagame. The assassination was then used as a pretext for the genocide. |
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