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03 May Symposium in Pursuit of Intersectional Justice at the International Criminal Court: Group Two – The ‘Other Inhumane Act’ of Forced Marriage in Prosecutor v Ongwen
...was a continuing crime. The Defence’s oral response reiterated the nullum crimen argument, but added two alternative arguments: that there was no marriage (it was “mere cohabitation” [p. 89] between the girls and their ‘spouses’) or that the relationship was not forced (as Joseph Kony gave consent for their ‘marriage’ in place of their parents under Acholi tradition [p. 88]). The Legal Representative of the Victims countered this by referring to expert evidence on marriage under Acholi culture introduced at trial (pp. 92-93) and we also pointed out that the...22 Sep Poor ICC Outreach — Uganda Edition
...Kony. To this day, the ICC has never emerged from under this cloud of apparent bias towards the Museveni Government. Recent events won’t foster much hope that it ever will. Given this history, you would think the Court would go out of its way to make sure people understand that it is not investigating only the LRA. You would be wrong. As I was perusing the ICC website yesterday, I found myself on the page dedicated to the Uganda situation. Other than providing information about ongoing cases, the page simply...31 Jul Emerging Voices: Taking Forced Marriage out of the “Other Inhumane Acts” Box
...than an “other inhumane act” is not simply for legal categorization. Rather, it is to cast a greater spotlight on a crime that has received scant recognition by the international community. As a result this has led to weak criminal enforcement. For instance, the ICC has issued arrest warrants for Ugandan warlord Joseph Kony and other high-ranking officials of the Lord’s Resistance Army for crimes against humanity, such as sexual slavery, rape, and murder. However, there was no mention of forced marriage in the indictment despite widespread reports. The ICC’s...02 Apr The NY Times on the ICC and Darfur
...reconciliation and compensation better justice than prosecution and punishment? In northern Uganda, many tribal groups were against the intervention of the I.C.C. at first. But some of Moreno-Ocampo’s initial enemies, like the northern mayors he was meeting with when I went to visit him in The Hague, subsequently brainstormed with him on how to arrest Joseph Kony, the leader of the Lord’s Resistance Army. Sudanese intellectuals close to the government are very good at painting pictures of Armageddon to foreigners, insisting that if the international community demands justice it will...07 Oct Could the US Prosecute Ugandan Military Officials for Using Child Soldiers?
...into LDUs in late 2004 in Kitgum, Pader and parts of Teso had apparently not been demobilized by October 2007. I don’t know how often UPDF officials visit the US, or how likely a US Attorney would be to arrest a UPDF official who did. But it would be deeply ironic if a UPDF official was ever prosecuted in a US court, given that the ICC has charged Joseph Kony and the other LRA leaders with (inter alia) conscripting child soldiers but ignored crimes committed by the Ugandan government. The...08 Jun ICC Struggles with the Uganda Case
As the rest of the media is focused on the very good news about the demise of Abu Masub al-Zarqawi (see Andrew Sullivan’s round-up of perspectives here, here and here), I wanted to draw attention to an article in today’s WSJ describing the ICC’s problems with its prosecution of Joseph Kony and the Lord’s Resistance Army. As Jess Bravin’s article makes clear, the reality of international prosecution — particularly where peace has not yet been made — falls far short of its promise. ICC proseuctor Luis Moreno-Ocampo has found his...29 Aug Ugandan Rebel Wanted by ICC Starts a PR Campaign
...that has seen more than 100,000 people die, some 1.7 million people uprooted from their homes and made internal refugees, and an estimated 38,000 children aged as young as seven and eight years abducted by the rebels to serve as guerrilla fighters, porters and sex slaves. “Thomas Lubanga was arrested because he was suspected of being a rebel, but if he had been the president of a country he would not be behind bars now in a European prison,” said Otti, who is deputy to the LRA leader Joseph Kony....
16 Oct Decision of The Court of the Citizens of World on the Proposed Indictment of Xi Jinping – The Opinion of Judge Stephen Rapp
...skilful examination and cross examination of witnesses, the presentation of thousands of pages of documents, and the eloquent closing submissions. We also wish to thank the witnesses, both factual and expert, who honoured this process with their sworn testimony, both in-person or by video-link. This is not a trial. It’s an indictment confirmation process similar to what the ICC conducts under Rome Statute Article 61, after the arrests of accused persons, and which it will conduct this October in the Joseph Kony case, in the absence of an arrest. It...
02 Jul The Use of Benchmarks in the Colombia Situation: An Opportunity for a Victim-Oriented Approach to ICC Complementarity
...victims, especially when directly balanced against a more lenient sentencing regime for their perpetrators. Thus far, the Court has not given victims’ rights and interests a prominent role in admissibility considerations. Concerns raised by victims in the situations in Uganda and Libya on their lack of access to justice, the absence of protective measures, limited possibilities to participate in proceedings and difficulties in obtaining reparations were not addressed by the Pre-Trial Chamber for either being premature (Kony et al ., paras. 47-51) or having already established the inability of the...