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ICTJ World ReportApril 2013

In Focus

Soft Vengeance: An Interview with South Africas

Albie Sachs

South African judge and human rights activist Albie Sachs is

among the foremost transitional justice experts to have emerged

from the anti-apartheid struggle and subsequent transition. In this

interview with ICTJ Vice President Paul Seils, Sachs discusses

the difficult balance of retribution and reconciliation, and offers

possible lessons from the South African experience for other

societies facing similar questions of truth and justice.

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AFRICA

In Kenya ICC indictees Uhuru Kenyatta and William Ruto were inaugurated President and Deputy

President after being elected in a highly anticipated presidential election in March. Earlier, the ICC

dropped all charges against former Kenyan head of the civil service Francis Muthaura, who was

accused alongside Uhuru Kenyatta of crimes against humanity during 2007-2008 post-election

violence. Parts of Kenya erupted in ethnic clashes prior to the election. On the tenth anniversary of the

handover of the final recommendations of the South Africa Truth and Reconciliation Commission,

SABC and the South African History Archive (SAHA) launched a new website highlighting the work of

the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC). Liberias disabled community is pressing the

Government of Liberia to pay them reparation following years of rebellions which left thousands of them

dead and disabled. Self-imposed leader of the Central African Republicannounced that he will

remain in power until 2016, after dissolving the parliament, abolishing the constitution and rebuffing

disapproval from other factions of the rebellion. Sudans President Omar al-Bashir has said that he will

release all political detainees in the country. Sudan's vice president invited rebel groups to help prepare

a new constitution, a sign of Khartoum's newly-relaxed stance toward the insurgents since signing

border security deals with South Sudan this month.

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AMERICAS

The Constitutional Court ofGuatemala will have to rule on the fate of the genocide trial against Ros

Montt, after the decision of a first-instance judge to nullify all the proceedings was appealed by the

Prosecutors' Office and the High Risk Tribunal, who consider that ruling "illegal." In Colombia, tens of

thousands of people marched through the streets of Bogot and other cities in a mass demonstration of

solidarity with victims of the countrys half-century-old conflict, and in support of the peace negotiations

aimed at ending it. Meanwhile, the first agreements on land issues were reached by the governmentand FARC representatives on the peace talks taking place in La Habana. Nearly a million secret

documents from the Brazilian dictatorship (1964-1985) have been declassified and made available to

the public by the Sao Paulo National Archive. In Argentina, the trial of Plan Condora secret, decade-

long campaign by six allied military governments to remove left-wing subversion opened, with 25

defendants accused of human rights abuses. Forensic scientists ofPeruidentified three of the 53

bodies recovered from a military base in Ayacucho, disappeared 30 years ago. In Chile, the Appeals

Court revoked the ruling that ordered economic reparations for more than 200 former political prisoners

between 1973 and 1990. In Haiti, former dictator Jean-Claude Duvalierfinally attended a hearing of his

ongoing trial for alleged abuses under his regime (1971-1986) with the help of the Tonton Macoutes

private militia. In El Salvador, human rights organizations and victims claimed before the Prosecutors

Office to investigate the more than 45 cases of massacres, killings and disappearances that took place

in the 1980s.

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The European Union discarded the last of its economic sanctions against Myanmaron Monday,

despite new reports that Rohingya Muslims there face bloody and persistent attempts at ethnic

cleansing. Nepal's Supreme Court issued an interim stay orderhalting an attempt by the government to

set up a Truth and Reconciliation Commission to investigate crimes committed during the country's 10-

year civil war. In Cambodia, translators have gone on strike at the genocide tribunal of Khmer Rogue

leaders. The UN's Human Rights Council has passed a resolution highly critical ofSri Lanka's record.

The resolution encourages Sri Lanka to conduct an independent and credible investigation into allegedwar crimes.

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EUROPE

A United Nations appeals court unexpectedly overturned the war crimes conviction of the former

Yugoslav Army chief who had been sentenced to 27 years for aiding and abetting atrocities in Bosnia

and Croatia, including attacks on Sarajevo and Srebrenica. Mio Stanii and Stojan upljanin, two

high level officials in Bosnian Serb structures, were each sentenced to 22 years imprisonment forcrimes against humanity and war crimes committed between April and December 1992 in Bosnia and

Herzegovina (BiH). Between 300 and 500 genocide victims from Srebrenicawill be buried at the

nearby Potocari Memorial on this year's anniversary of the massacres by Bosnian Serb forces. War

crimes prosecutors from Serbia and Bosniamet in Sarajevo to discuss cooperation in war crimes

investigations and appointed liaison officers for that purpose.

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MENA

Human Rights Watch said that police arrested 20 opposition activists in towns nearBahrain's Formula

One circuit in a sign of rising political tension before the Grand Prix on April 21. In Egypt, a Cairo

criminal court accepted an appeal submitted by Egypt's prosecution against an earlier release order

granted to former president Hosni Mubarak in his trial over graft charges and he will remain detained for

at least a 15 day period pending further investigation into the case. The Special Tribunal for Lebanon

(STL) condemned the latest attempt to interfere with the proper administration of justice by publishing a

list of alleged witnesses and potentially endangering the lives of Lebanese citizens. Libya's national

assembly approved a law criminalizing torture and abductions. Activists said they would not withdraw a

lawsuit against Israeli commanders for a fatal 2010 raid on theirGaza-bound flotilla, ahead of official

compensation talks between Turkey and the Israel. A team of U.N.-led experts is on standby in Cypruswaiting for the go-ahead to investigate allegations of chemical weapons attacks in Syria, but the

mission has been held up by diplomatic wrangling over their powers and how to keep them safe.

Tunisiareceived 28.8 million in the first such retrieval of what it calls looted assets held abroad by

ousted President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali and his family. Yemenlaunched an UN-backed national

dialogue whereby representatives of various political groups and civil society are discussing the

countrys constitution and elections.

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Publications

Truth Seeking: Elements of Creating an Effective Truth

Commission

This publication provides an overview of the essential best

practices guiding the main aspects of a truth commission,

answering basic questions relating to its goals, powers,

operations, framework, protections for commissioners and

witnesses, and reporting.

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A Bitter Legacy: Lessons of De-Baathification in Iraq

Based on significant field research and interviews with the Higher

National de-Baathification Commission, this report focuses on

Iraqs purge of members of Saddam Husseins Baath Party,

which is the most well-known example of large-scale and

politically based dismissals in the Middle East and North Africa.

The report summarizes the structure and impact of de-

Baathification from 2003 to 2011.

View Report

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April 24 - 27, 2013

Truth and

Reconciliation

Commission of

Canada: National Event

Location: Montreal, Quebec

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April 26, 2013

Mapping the Rollback?

Human rights

provisions of theBelfast/Good Friday

Agreement

Location: Belfast, Northern

Ireland

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