War Crimes Prosecution Watch
Total Page:16
File Type:pdf, Size:1020Kb
WAR CRIMES PROSECUTION EDITOR IN CHIEF Hilarie Henry FREDERICK K. COX WATCH INTERNATIONAL LAW CENTER MANAGING EDITORS Audrey Balint Founder/Advisor Volume 8 - Issue 12 Rachel Berman-Vaporis Michael P. Scharf September 9, 2013 SENIOR TECHNICAL EDITOR Peter Beardsley War Crimes Prosecution Watch is a bi-weekly e-newsletter that compiles official documents and articles from major news sources detailing and analyzing salient issues pertaining to the investigation and prosecution of war crimes throughout the world. To subscribe, please email [email protected] and type "subscribe" in the subject line. Opinions expressed in the articles herein represent the views of their authors and are not necessarily those of the War Crimes Prosecution Watch staff, the Case Western Reserve University School of Law or Public International Law & Policy Group. Contents INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT Central African Republic & Uganda Bemba Trial: Prosecutors Challenge Credibility of Bemba Witness Bemba Trial: Former Adversaries Deny Knowledge of Crimes by Bemba's Fighters Bemba Trial: Former Bodyguard, Victims of Bozizé Rebels Testify for Bemba Bemba Trial: Bemba’s Former Bodyguard Testifies in His Defense at the ICC Bemba Trial: Bemba ‘Did Not Give Speech to Fuel Atrocities’ Bemba Trial: Victims of Bozizé Rebels Recount Atrocities at Bemba Trial Bemba Trial: Victims of Bozizé Witness Affirms He Never Witnessed Crimes by Bemba’s Fighters Bemba Trial: Victims of Bozizé Bemba Hearing Stalls Due to Connectivity Problems Bemba Trial: Victims of Bozizé Bemba Witness Says She Was Raped by Bozizé Rebels Bemba Trial: Victims of Bozizé Witness: I Have No Knowledge of Atrocities by Bemba’s Troops Darfur, Sudan Sudan Tribune: Sudan to Conduct Thorough Review of Immunity Laws Democratic Republic of the Congo All Africa: Congo-Kinshasa: Lubanga Victims Must Apply to Participate in Ntaganda Proceedings Global Research: Kagame’s Mass Atrocities in Rwanda and the Congo Lubanga Trial: Q & A With International Criminal Court Registrar Herman von Hebel: Part II Kenya All Africa: Bensouda Not Opposed to Ruto on Hearings Institute for War & Peace Reporting: Further Threats to ICC's Kenya Witnesses All Africa: ICC Will Not Detain Kenyans Facing Crime Against Humanity Charges All Africa: Bensouda to Restore Evidence All Africa: ICC Extends Ruto Sittings All Africa: Uhuru ICC Status Forum Set for Next Friday All Africa: Two More ICC Witnesses in Ruto Case Withdraw Amnesty International: Reject Efforts to Withdraw from the International Criminal Court Capital FM: Challenges Abound for the ICC in Kenya Cases Global Post: ICC Says Cases Against Kenyan President, Deputy Will Go Ahead Libya Sky News: Gaddafi’s Son Seeks UK Help Over ‘Show Trial’ Huffington Post: Seif Al-Islam Gaddafi, Muammar Gaddafi’d Son, To Stand Trial for Murder in Libya MSN: Libya Trial of Gaddafi Son ‘in September’ Think Africa Press: It’s Time for Saif al-Isam Gaddafi to Go to the Hague BBC News: Daughter of Libya’s Former Spy Chief Senussi Kidnapped Cote d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast) News24: Ghana Won’t Extradite Gbagbo Ally to I Coast CitiFM Online: Former Ivorian Minister Calls for Laurent Gbagbo’s Release AFRICA International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda IPS News: Tribunal Digs Up Partial Truth All Africa: Munyeshaka Case to be Closed by 2014-Report All Africa: Genocide Suspects in UK Set for Extradition Hearing Chad All Africa: Jacqueline Moudeina, Chad Special Court for Sierra Leone The New Republic Liberia: Taylor One Month Away - To Freedom or Total Damnation EUROPE Court of Bosnia & Herzegovina, War Crimes Chamber Balkan Transitional Justice: Bosnia Serb ‘Jailer’ Spotted at Bratunac School Prison Balkan Transitional Justice: Bosnian Serb Policeman Appeals Mass Execution Sentence Balkan Transitional Justice: Bosnian Croat Forces ‘Beat and Molested’ Female Prisoner Court of Bosnia & Herzegovina: Goran Saric Sentenced to 14 Years in Prison for Crimes Against Humanity Court of Bosnia & Herzegovina: Status Conference in Vehid Subotic Case Balkan Transitional Justice: Bosnian Serbs ‘Used Prisoners as Human Shields’ International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia Institute for War and Peace Reporting: Mladic’s "Genocide" Warning Meant to Shock Institute for War and Peace Reporting: Croatian Serb Leader Evaded Responsibility for Crimes- Witness Institute for War and Peace Reporting: Hague Judges Deny Karadzic Twin Trials Request Institute for War and Peace Reporting: Diplomat on Hadzic as "Convincing" Croatian Serb Leader Institute for War and Peace Reporting: Uncertainty Over Seselj Case After Judge’s Removal Institute for War and Peace Reporting: Karadzic Loses in Challenge to Appeals Process Domestic Prosecutions In The Former Yugoslavia Balkan Insight: Yugoslav Colonel Convicted of War Crimes in Slovenia Balkan Insight: Sarajevo Police Chief Jailed For War Crimes Balkan Insight: Convicted Sarajevo Policeman Arrested Over Srebrenica Killings Balkan Insight: Severed Head Seen in Bosnia School Jail Balkan Insight: Kosovo War Crimes Suspects Freed From House Arrest Balkan Insight: Srebrenica Genocide Suspects Face Trial in Serbia MIDDLE EAST AND ASIA Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia: Schedule of Closing Arguments Case 002/01 Adjusted VOA Khmer: Cambodian Staff Strike at Khmer Rouge Tribunal VOA Khmer: Japan to Help Funding Woes on Cambodian Side of Tribunal Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia: Statement on the Passing of Mr. Jacques Verges VOA Khmer: Tribunal Walkout a Worrying Sign Analysts Say Iraqi High Tribunal Syria New York Times: Report Says Syrian Forces Have Used Cluster Bombs BBC: Syria Chemical Weapons Attack Killed 1,429, says John Kerry The Guardian: Syria: 'Napalm' Bomb Dropped on School Playground, BBC Claims Special Tribunal for Lebanon The Daily Star: STL is 'No Sinking Ship,' Has Potential to Move On The Daily Star: STL Meets with Media Council over Leaks Bangladesh International Crimes Tribunal Dhaka Tribune : HRW Slammed for "Unethical, Biased" Reporting Bangladesh News 24: Yusuf's Plea Rejected Bangladesh News 24: 'Economist Verdict' on Sept 26 Bangladesh News 24: Charge-Framing Order Against Quasem Deferred Dhaka Tribune: Draft Law to Drop 1971 Collaborators, Convicts As Voters Bangladesh News 24: Jamaat Financier Indicted on 14 Charges War Crimes Investigations in Burma The Guardian: Burma: Buddhist Mobs Burn Down Muslim Homes and Shops The Irrawaddy: Torture Persists in Kachin State NORTH AND SOUTH AMERICA United States The Washington Post: Two Algerians Released from Guantanamo Bay The Washington Post: Senate Committee Approves Resolution Authorizing U.S. Strike on Syria The Washington Post: U.S. Dismisses U.N. Inspections in Syria of Alleged Chemical Weapons Sites The Washington Post: Putin Warns U.S. Not to Strike Syria, Dismisses Case Against Assad as "˜Rumors" South & Central America Peru Los Angeles Times: Peru Commandos Kill Two Shining Path Leaders Andean Air Mail & Peruvian Times: Fujimori Changes Strategy to Exit Peruvian Prison Chile Associated Press: Chile Ex-Army Chief Admits Handing Child to Nuns TOPICS Terrorism Associated Press: NY Judge Won't Dismiss Preacher's Terrorism Case Associated Press: Greek Militant Anarchist Group Claims Letter Bomb Attack on Anti- Terrorism Prosecutor Associated Press: Judge in Terrorist Case Undoes Key Surveillance Ruling Favoring Feds; Reopens Issue to Debate Piracy United Nations News Centre: UN Chief Urges Collective Action to Fight Piracy, Armed Robbery at Sea in Central Africa ABC News: Nigeria Navy Kills Six Pirates, Injures One Gender-Based Violence Los Angeles Times: Two More Suspects Arrested in Indian Rape Case BBC: Delhi Gang Rape: Verdict on 10 September International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics: "˜Hundreds of FGM Asylum Applications" Rejected in the UK AllAfrica: Kenya: 54 Jailed over Gender Based Post Election Violence Crimes REPORTS UN Reports Global Post: UN Rights Chief in Sri Lanka to Probe War Crimes The Washington Post: UN Tribunal Removes Danish Judge from Long-running War Crimes Trial of Serb Nationalist Seselj Daily Record: Alex Salmond Calls for President Assad to Face War Crimes Trial if UN Inspectors Find that His Regime Gassed Civilians NGO Reports Amnesty International: Syria: Possible International Armed Intervention after Alleged Chemical Weapons Attack TRUTH AND RECONCILIATION COMMISSIONS Peru Peruvians Unhealed a Decade After Truth Commission Nepal Dahal Urges Regmi to Stop Adhikari Murder Probe COMMENTARY AND PERSPECTIVES Why Syria Still Won’t Be Referred to the ICC Can the ICC Prosecute for Use of Chemical Weapons in Syria? Treaty Interpretation, the VCLT, and the ICC Statute: A Response to Kevin Jon Heller and Dov Jacobs Syria: War Is Looming, But Is Justice Possible? Justice in Conflict: Could Russia Be a Key to International Justice in Libya? Opinio Juris: Emerging Voices: Making Room for the Distributive in Transitional Justice Opinio Juris: Could the Security Council Refer Only Assad’s Use of Chemical Weapons? Breaking: Judge Harhoff Disqualified from the Seselj Case Opinio Juris: Brief Thoughts on Judge Harhoff’s Disqualification Opinio Juris: Schabas on Chemical Weapons Opinio Juris: Emerging Voices: Peace-Time Crimes Against Humanity and the ICC Foreign State Officials Do Not Enjoy Immunity Ratione Materiae from Extradition Proceedings: The Not So Curious Case of Khurts Bat – A Reply to Dr. Roger O’Keefe "Specific Direction" Is Unprecedented: Results from Two Empirical Studies WORTH READING