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ICTJ World Report

Issue 17 October 2012

In Focus
ICTJ Forum October 2012: Analysis of World Events From a Transitional Justice Perspective
The latest episode of ICTJ Forum, a monthly podcast looking into recent news and events from around the world, features ICTJ President David Tolbert, Truth and Memory Program Director Eduardo Gonzalez, and Africa Program Director Suliman Baldo. They join host and Communications Director Refik Hodzic for an in-depth analysis of recent developments in Kenya, the former Yugoslavia, and Colombia.
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AFRICA Three elderly Kenyans have won an historic legal victory over the British government after the high court gave them permission to claim damages for the grave abuses they suffered when imprisoned during the Mau Mau rebellion. The three suffered what their lawyers describe as "unspeakable acts of brutality," including castration, beatings and severe sexual assaults. As Kenya approaches the general election, the vice chair of the Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission has urged Kenyans to shun politicians who incite violence, and former United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan has cautioned that electing those facing charges at the International Criminal Court will have implications on Kenyas foreign relations. The Special Court for Sierra Leone, established to prosecute those most responsible for atrocities committed during Sierra Leones 10-year civil war, will soon deliver its final judgment. The trial of a top military ally of Ivory Coast's former president Laurent Gbagbo, the first involving an
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accused instigator of last year's post-election violence, opened in Abidjan. During the trial of a Rwandan man accused of masterminding the murder of 2,000 people in the country's 1994 genocide, a witness accused the man of leading a militia that made victims dig their graves before they were killed with hand grenades and machetes.
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AMERICAS Peace talks between the Colombian government and FARC will begin on October 17 in Oslo. President Santos apologized to indigenous communities in the Amazon for the death and destruction during the rubber boom in the early 20th century. Brazil's Truth Commission will investigate the activities of Operation Condor, a military-political alliance of Latin American dictatorships in the 1970s, organized and led by the United States. Six perpetrators of crimes against humanity were convicted and sentenced to life by Argentinian courts. The United States granted political asylum to Oscar Ramrez Castaeda, an illegal immigrant from Guatemala who is a survivor of a civil war massacre of 250 villagers in 1982. A truth commission formed by human rights organizations called on Honduras to annul a 2010 amnesty law and fire Honduran officials responsible for the coup. Thousands in Chile mourned the death of Pierre Dubois a prominent human rights advocate. Bolivia marked 30 years of democracy after two decades of military dictatorship.
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ASIA In Nepal, the office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) has released a "conflict mapping report" archiving over 20,000 documents related to human rights violation s during the country's 10-year Maoist insurgency. Nepals government has insisted the report was prepared without their consent. Thailands truth commissions released a major new report that warns that conflicts in Thai society are still simmering and that the country is at risk of another escalation to violence. The report blames both the military and a group of militants, known as black shirts, for deaths during political violence two years ago. In Indonesia, families and survivors of human rights abuses have urged the President to bring those involved in human rights violations to justice, including those responsible for forced disappearances. Following sectarian violence in Burma's state of Rakhine, human rights researchers are now warning that the government appears to be attempting to permanently house parts of the stateless Muslim-minority Rohingya in temporary refugee camps. A split in the leadership of the Karen National Union (KNU) has complicated the fragile peace negotiations between the KNU and the government.
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EUROPE Italy's highest court upheld guilty verdicts on 23 Americans for the kidnapping of an Egyptian Muslim

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cleric, in the first criminal convictions for CIA "rendition" flights during the U.S. 'war on terror'. Slovakia has launched a war crimes investigation against the alleged Nazi-era war criminal Laszlo Csatary, recently detained in neighboring Hungary. In Bosnia, a former member of the hunting brigade of the Bosnian Army in Srebrenik, was found guilty of abusing Bosnian Serb civilians detained in the Youth Center in Rapatnica, in the municipality of Srebrenik, in 1992. A draft of Bosnias Transitional Justice Strategy is still waiting to be put to a vote in Bosnia and Herzegovinas parliament.Serbia's president has once again denied the Srebrenica genocide.
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MENA Bahrains highest court upheld prison sentences against nine medics convicted for taking part in last years uprising. Egyptian President Mohamad Morsy issued a decree granting pardon to Egyptians detained or convicted for acts linked to the 25 January Revolution. Thousands of Jordanians marched in a large demonstration calling on King Abdullah to accelerate democratic reforms. Lebanon formed a ministerial committee to consider a proposed decree on the establishment of a national independent commission for the forcibly disappeared; however, families of the missing have objected that officials have not taken their concerns into consideration. Hundreds of Libyans turned over their weapons at collection points in Tripoli and Benghazi following rallies that called for disarmament and disbanding of militias. The UN Special Rapporteur on Torture said that while a culture of human rights is emerging in Morocco, the authorities must do more to eradicate torture and ill-treatment. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees spokesperson said that than more than 300,000 Syrians have fled to neighboring countries, with numbers tripling over the past three months. Meanwhile, UN Human Rights Council extended the mandate of its investigation into war crimes in Syria by another six months and condemned widespread violations by Syrian government. Yemenis are using street art to lobby the government to reveal the fate of hundreds of people who disappeared during years of political turmoil.
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Publications
Relief, Reparations, and the Root Causes of Conflict in Nepal
The report examines the measures taken in Nepal to redress victims following the 2006 peace agreement, which formally ended the ten-year civil war between the government and Maoist rebels.
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Transitions in/to Democracy: Contemporary Chances and Challenges

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