By Kofi Annan, Op-Ed, New York Times, 29 June 2009
Eleven years ago when I opened the Rome conference that led to the founding of the International Criminal Court, I reminded the delegates that the eyes of the victims of past crimes and the potential victims of future ones were fixed firmly upon them. The delegates, [...]
Archive for June, 2009
Kofi Annan Op-Ed: Africa and the International Court
Posted in News Updates, tagged African Union, ICC, Kofi Annan on June 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
ICTR Prosecutor Calls for Life Sentences for Former Military Comanders
Posted in News Updates on June 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The New Times, Arusha June 26 2009
Arusha — Prosecution at the Arusha based, International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), on Wednesday, requested a life imprisonment sentence for each of the four former military officers appearing in a collective trial code-named “Military II”.
The former officers are; Gen. Augustin Bizimungu former army chief of staff, and former [...]
White House Boosts Efforts on North-South Peace in Sudan
Posted in News Updates on June 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Mary Beth Sheridan Washington Post
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
The Obama administration stepped up its efforts yesterday to salvage a four-year-old peace accord for Sudan, convening officials from 32 countries and international organizations amid fears that Africa’s longest-running civil war could resume.
The conference came after years in which the world’s attention was focused on a separate Sudanese [...]
ICTR Sentences Kalimanzira for 30 Years
Posted in News Updates on June 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
(CNN) — June 22 2009
A former Rwandan official was sentenced to 30 years in jail for his role in the death of “thousands of Tutsi refugees” in country’s 1994 genocide, a court announced Monday.
Callixte Kalimanzira, a top Interior Ministry official at the time, “lured” the refugees to Kabuye hill and helped “provide armed reinforcements” to [...]
ICC Judge says Court has Jurisdiction over Crimes Against Humanity in the Niger Delta
Posted in News Updates on June 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Vanguard, Abuja June 17 2009
Abuja — A Judge of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Justice Mrs. Akua Kuenyehia yesterday disclosed that the ICC has the jurisdiction to prosecute the masterminds of crimes against humanity taking place in the Niger Delta if Nigeria sends a petition to it for intervention.
Kueyehia is in Abuja for a two [...]
UK Urged to Reform War Crimes Laws
Posted in News Updates on June 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Christian Ehret, Jurist, June 16 2009
War crimes suspects entering or residing in the UK are often immune from prosecution for their acts, according to a report [text, PDF] released Monday by Aegis Trust [advocacy website]. The report refers to a “significant number” of alleged war criminals and perpetrators of genocide in the UK that hail [...]
ICC Charges Bemba for War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity
Posted in News Updates on June 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
VOA News , 15 June 2009
The Hague-based International Criminal Court has ordered the Democratic Republic of Congo’s former Vice President Jean-Pierre Bemba to go on trial on five charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity. Lisa Bryant has more from Paris.
A statement from the court said that a panel of judges had found there [...]
Report from Child Soldier Witness at ICC Lubanga Trial
Posted in News Updates on June 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Institute for War and Peace Reporting, London, Rachel Irwin, 15 June 2009
The Hague — Children joined Thomas Lubanga’s militia to avenge the murders of family and friends, a witness told prosecutors at the International Criminal Court, ICC, this week.
“They had just arrived from their homes,” explained the unnamed witness, identified as a former soldier in [...]
Former UN Spokesperson Goes to Trial in the Hague
Posted in News Updates on June 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Jun 14, 2009 AFP
THE HAGUE — Florence Hartmann, a former spokeswoman of the UN’s Yugoslav war crimes court, goes on trial before her former employer, risking seven years in jail for publishing classified information.
Hartmann, a 46-year-old French national, stands accused of wilfully disclosing confidential facts in a 2007 book she wrote about the workings of [...]
South Africa and Rwanda Call for Creation of Regional African Court
Posted in News Updates on June 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Bloomberg, June 12, 2009
Johannesburg: South African President Jacob Zuma and his Rwandan counterpart Paul Kagame yesterday called for the creation of an African court, accusing the International Criminal Court in The Hague of imposing “selective” justice.
“You always have the Africans indicted, you don’t see any others from Europe and other places,” Kagame said at the [...]
