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ICTJ World ReportMarch 2013

In Focus

ICTJ Forum: March 2013

The latest episode of the ICTJ forumfeatures analysis of significant

transitional justice news, including

breaking developments in Kenya, Tunisia, and Syria. ICTJ Vice

President Paul Seils and Truth and Memory program Director

Eduardo Gonzalez join Communications Director Refik Hodzic for

this expert discussion.

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AFRICA

A special African court set up to try ex-Chadian president Hissene Habre for war crimes and crimes

against humanity officially began its work in Senegal, where Habre has lived in exile for over two

decades. South African prosecutors announced they will investigate President Robert Mugabes

political party for crimes against humanity for an alleged campaign of mass rapes in Zimbabwes last

election. Leaders of several African countries and United Nations officials have created a new

framework for peace to tackle instability in the Democratic Republic of Congo. In violation of its

obligations as a memberof the International Criminal Court, Chad hosted Sudanese President Omar

Al-Bashir, who has been indicted by the ICC for genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity.

Ivory Coast became a member of the International Criminal Court, where its former president is facing

trial for alleged crimes against humanity. In confirmation of charges hearings, the Ivory Coast's ex-

President Laurent Gbagbo told the ICC that he has always "fought for democracy." The former

president of Liberia and convicted war criminal, Charles Taylor, and his wife, Victoria Addison-Taylor,

claim they are owed a pension of more than $200,000.

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AMERICAS

Colombian congressmen filed a lawsuit claiming that the controversial military justice reform is

unconstitutional. Meanwhile, the Colombian government said it might be open to initiate peace talks

with the armed group ELN. A Guatemalan judge ordered the trial of ex-dictator Efrain Rios Montt for the

genocide of the country's indigenous populations during his 1982-83 regime the trial will start on

March 19. In the United States, the official seating ceremony of the Maine Wabanaki-State Child

Welfare Truth and Reconciliation Commission took place. The commission will look into the forced

assimilation of Wabanaki children, as implemented by the state child welfare system. The UN

announced that it would assist Brazils Truth Commission in order to systematize the information

gathered about the military dictatorship (1964-1985). Former Haitian dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier,

who repeatedly defied a judges request to appear in court, has been requested to face his alleged

victims in a courtroom and answer questions about his brutal regime without delay. For the first time,

Argentinian courts have confirmed in their ruling the complicity of the Catholic church with crimes

against humanity committed during the military dictatorship (1976-1983). The Uruguay Supreme Courtruled that a 2011 law allowing for investigations into crimes committed during the country's 1973-1985

dictatorship is unconstitutional . The government of Peru returned the remains of78 victims of the

internal conflict to their families for the first time, there were victims of Shining Path, the Army and the

paramilitarys violence at the same event. The Inter-American Court of Human Rights rules that El

Salvador could not use a blanket amnesty to block the investigation of gross violations of human rights.

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ASIA

Burmas President Thein Sein announced that a committee will be formed to review political prisoner

cases in Burma. The announcement came as government held peace talks with a federation of ethnic

groups to try to resolve issues including the conflict in the northern state of Kachin. Meanwhile, human

rights groups report that 13 women, including teenagers, have been subjected to prolonged rape by

Burmese security forces in a remote village in the western state of Arakan. In the Philippines, President

Aquino signed into law legislation that would recognize and compensate victims of human rights

abuses during martial law under former President Marcos. Cambodias Khmer Rouge tribunals

Supreme Court Chamber has reversed a 2011 decision to split Case 002 into mini-trials, effectively

reinstating the full scope of charges against the three elderly accused. Claiming they had not received

pay in three months, Cambodian translators announced theirstrike, postponing proceedings

indefinitely. The Afghan government welcomed President Barack Obamas decision to bring home half

of the 66,000 American troops in Afghanistan within the next year. Outraged by a court verdict they

considered too lenient, thousands of people have taken to the streets across Bangladesh demanding

the death penalty for an Islamic party leader convicted of war crimes carried out more than four

decades ago.

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EUROPE

A tribunal in Barcelona, Spain, ordered an investigation into high ranking members of the Italian air

force who were supporters of dictator Francisco Franco during the civil war (1936-1939). Belgrades

special court sentenced seven people for the killings of 28 Roma civilians, the rape and torture of three

Roma women, and the demolition of a mosque in the village of Skocic. The International Criminal

Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) unexpectedly overturned the war crimes conviction of theformer Yugoslav Army chief sentenced to 27 years for aiding and abetting atrocities in Bosnia and

Croatia, including attacks on Sarajevo and Srebrenica. Some 20,000 members of Croatian war

veterans associations rallied in the central square in Vukovar, a town devastated by heavy fighting

when it was besieged by Serb forces in 1991. Three US residents pleaded guilty in federal court for

participating in a scheme that defrauded a Holocaust reparations organization of more than $57 million.

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MENA

Bahrain's government and six opposition groups held the first round of talks aimed at solving the

country's two-year-old political crisis. UN Women expressed deep concern over the gravity of recent

attacks against women in Egypt, including the reports of sexual assault, many of which occurred in the

same Tahrir Square in which women rallied to contribute to a better future for their country. Lebanons

Justice Ministerannounced he would propose once more a decree for the creation of a national

commission for the missing and forcibly disappeared at the next cabinet session; this comes after the

first decree faced opposition from civil society organizations for excluding the missing. Libya announced

it had appealed an ICC order to hand over former Libyan Intelligence Chief Abdullah Senussi, saying it

is capable of trying Qaddafi-era officials in Libya. The ICC should launch an investigation into war

crimes in Syria, said former UN prosecutor Carla del Ponte as the UN Commission of Inquiry on Syria

released its latest report on the situation in the country. Tunisian authorities claimed they identified the

murderer of opposition leader Chokri Belaid and are pursuing him, while four suspects allegedly

connected to the assassination have been detained as well, said Tunisian Interior Minister Ali

Laarayedh. Tens of thousands of Yemenis gathered in Sanaa to celebrate the second anniversary of

the launch of nationwide protests that pushed President Ali Abdullah Saleh out of power after 33 years

in office.

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Publications

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,

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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.

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Unredressed Legacy: Possible Policy Options and

Approaches to Fulfilling Reparations in Uganda

There is now an opportunity to design and implement a

reparations program for victims of human rights and humanitarian

law violations in Uganda. As with other countries emerging from

conflict, the contours of a Ugandan reparations policy have been

the subject of extended debate and generated high expectations.

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