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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...
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...08 Jan Weekday News Wrap: Tuesday, January 8, 2013
...Rebel fighters in Mali have captured at least 12 government soldiers along with their vehicle and equipment. A new law passed by the US House and awaiting signature from President Obama will extend the Rewards for Justice Program, allowing for rewards for people wanted by the ICC (including Joseph Kony). President Obama’s new pick for the Secretary of Defense is Senator Chuck Hagel. Foreign Policy asks if Hagel will be able to stand up to the drone lobby and at Lawfare, they discuss whether a Hagel appointment at DoD and...24 Mar Weekly News Wrap: Monday, March 24, 2014
Your weekly selection of international law and international relations headlines from around the world: Africa The Pentagon has reported that the Obama administration is sending about 150 Special Operations troops along with military aircraft to Uganda to help in the search for warlord Joseph Kony. Suspected Boko Haram fighters have detonated a bomb in a crowded marketplace in northeastern Nigeria killing at least 20 people. Asia A Chinese court has handed an 18-month jail term to a man who applied to hold a protest on the anniversary of the 1989...02 Jul LRA Leader Was a Child Soldier Himself
...Terrified, Dominic did not resist or beg. The LRA’s fighting force is made up primarily of child soldiers, many forced into gruesome killing rituals to cut them off from their communities. Humanitarian agencies say 20,000 children have been abducted or killed in the war, and nearly two million people displaced. Ongwen was indicted by the ICC in July 2005, along with four others, including Joseph Kony, the LRA’s head. But his circumstances present “a fundamental dilemma”, an ICC source in Uganda acknowledges, as he is a “veteran child soldier”. The...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...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…...
25 Mar Symposium on Prosecuting Heads of State for International Crimes: The Lengthy Wait for an Arrest Warrant for the Acting Head of State of Myanmar Before the ICC
...in absentia, which, after the ICC Kony decision, stands as a vivid possibility. And any such hearing will pull together the different efforts taken at the national level – especially the universal jurisdiction cases, as these cases have the potential of international collaboration and engagement with ICC mechanisms. In this “third wave of accountability” in international criminal justice – where national prosecutorial and judicial initiatives in different States and grassroot efforts by different interested parties attempt to fill the vacuum resulting from lack of political will – an arrest warrant...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...