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05 Jun Weekday News Wrap: Wednesday, June 5, 2013
...has handed out prison sentences of up to five years to 43 pro-democracy NGO workers, including 16 Americans. Environmental NGOs have released a report accusing Joseph Kony and his militia of poaching elephants for cash and have called upon governments, particularly in Asia, to do more to combat the illegal trade in ivory. The EU Trade Commissioner, Karel De Gucht, has imposed a 12% import duty on Chinese solar panel products that will increase to an average of 47% unless a solution is negotiated within 60 days. China has already...
18 Sep Organizing Rebellion Symposium: Non-State Armed Groups’ Organizational Structures–Some Thoughts and Inquiries
...place and regulation in international law still remains insufficiently explored. Two explanations serve to justify this situation. First, the law applicable upon NSAGs is part of public international law, which has always been State-centric in nature; and second, from a methodological perspective, this category of actor encompasses a variety of entities with different features, goals and even international organizations. While some may have (or have had) strong individual leaders, such as Joseph Kony in the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) in Uganda, Foday Sankoh in the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) of...04 Apr Weekday News Wrap: Thursday, April 4, 2013
The US has added Joseph Kony to its war crimes rewards programme and offered a US$5 million reward for his capture, after the recent coup in the Central African Republic forced the suspension of the manhunt for him. The US has moved missile defenses to Guam to respond to North Korea’s nuclear threat, which Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel labeled a “real and clear danger” to the US and its South-Korean and Japanese allies. Amnesty International has condemned as torture a sentence of paralysis reportedly to be imposed in Saudi Arabia...
11 Apr Symposium on Dominic Ongwen Case: Prepare Victims to Receive Reparations
...(like many others) also suffered. We would not have been involved in this if Joseph Kony had not started the war. Everyone was impacted. Women and children have been the most affected and many of them are living with chronic wounds, both physical and psychological which have not healed because the process of getting assistance and compensation has taken a long time. Even our men are suffering but are afraid to speak out about what has happened to them. The decision gives victims hope that they will finally be compensated...26 Nov ICC Stands Firm: Will Not Retract Uganda Arrest Warrants
The ICC is standing tough in Uganda: The International Criminal Court ruled out Thursday canceling arrest warrants for Ugandan rebel commanders, saying the rebel leaders and not the warrants are the obstacle to peace. “It is time to marginalise, isolate and arrest individuals sought by the court. The international community must give them no support,” ICC Deputy Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda said in a statement. “People such as Joseph Kony or Ahmed Haroun committed unspeakable atrocities; they are a stumbling block to lasting peace and security,” she added. The stalemate continues…...13 Mar Uganda Will Defy ICC: LRA Rebels Will Not Be Turned Over
Somehow, I knew it would come to this. The Ugandan president, Yoweri Museveni, is headed for a confrontation with the international criminal court after saying he will not hand over to The Hague the leaders of his country’s rebel Lord’s Resistance Army indicted for war crimes. Museveni said Joseph Kony, the LRA leader, and his commanders will instead be brought before “traditional” Ugandan courts – which emphasise apologies and compensation rather than punishment – as part of a deal to end a 21-year civil war marked by the abduction of...
11 Jun Conflict-Related Sexual Violence Symposium: Conversations under the Rome Statute –Enslavement and Slave Trade
...Violence in Conflict for raising the critical comparison of the international crime of the slave trade and the transnational crime of trafficking in the special issue of the Journal of International Criminal Justice (JICJ). While we recognize these advancements, what do these two laudatory events have in common? Not enough. The case of Dominic Ongwen, a subordinate to the infamous, and still uncaptured, Commander Joseph Kony, illustrates the quintessential criminal conduct inflicted by the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) in Uganda. Ongwen, a former child soldier who survived and proceeded through...
04 Oct Distant Justice Symposium: A Reply by Phil Clark
...in Distant Justice that the ICC only displays a willingness to cooperate with domestic institutions when they pose no challenge to the Court’s jurisdiction over particular cases. To take the northern Ugandan example Agirre cites, Ocampo stated consistently that no complementary combinations would be possible if Uganda attempted to use traditional mechanisms to deal with the ICC’s targets, Joseph Kony and the other Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) commanders, as proposed during the Juba peace talks. Tellingly, Agirre makes no mention of one of the key findings in Distant Justice –...01 Aug Emerging Voices: The Preliminary Examinations in Iraq: A Net Loss for the ICC’s Political Capital
...of the State Department’s War Crimes Rewards Program, which offers financial rewards for information leading to the arrest of suspects sought by the ICC (and especially leaders of the Joseph Kony’s Lord Resistance Army). At first glance, these seem to be rather weighty indicators of the evolution of America’s relationship with the Court. The handover of alleged Congolese warlord Bosco Ntaganda from the American Embassy in Rwanda to the custody of the ICC further supports the notion of the ‘Obama thaw.’ Closer examination, however, shows that the relationship is not...18 Mar Lubanga Decision Roundtable: Lubanga in Context
...about the impunity they have traditionally enjoyed, and to a lesser extent, a warning to others elsewhere too. So, when Joseph Kony demands that a set of criminal lawyers march for miles into the bush to advise him on his potential exposure to liability for international crimes, there is some nominal gain in the world. This benefit is also apparent when the head of the British army demands a single written sentence from the British Attorney General and Prime Minister describing the Iraq War as legal before he sends in...