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ICTJ World Report

August 2013
In Focus
ICTJ Forum: 'The Act of Killing,' Peru, and the Philippines
In this edition of the ICTJ Forum, ICTJ Communications Director Refik Hodzic discusses transitional justice in the news with Truth and Memory Program Director Eduardo Gonzalez and Reparative Justice Program Director Ruben Carranza. They look at the meaning and impact of the explosive new documentary The Act of Killing," discuss the 10-year anniversary of Peru's truth and reconciliation commission, and peace talks in the Philippines.
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AFRICA The UN Security Council said Cote dIvoire must pursue impartial justice for 2010-11 post-election crimes, since so far prosecutions have almost exclusively targeted the allies of former president Laurent Gbagbo. Ivorian victims groups, meanwhile, met with ICTJ for training on how to advocate for their right to redress and reparations. South Africa has passed a new bill that integrates a set of laws relating to the Constitutional Court, the Supreme Court of Appeal and the High Court and that establishes a single High Court of South Africa until the Superior Courts Bill, the country had been operating in accordance with the apartheid-era Supreme Court Act of 1959. The Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) said that the militant group Boko Haram may be committing crimes against humanity, including murder and prosecution, in Nigeria. The ICC, which has 18 cases opened in Africa, announced that it may have to close two or three cases it they reduce the budget to Sh14.4 billion, or $164.5 million, next year. In Rwanda, widows of those killed in the 1994 Genocide said they
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worry that the official closing of gacaca courts will present hurdles to receiving compensation from seized properties of convicts.
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AMERICAS Colombias latest round of peace talks with leftist FARC rebels restarted in Cuba at the end of July and ended in mid-August. The country announced that 13 right-wing paramilitary chiefs and three leftist rebel chiefs will be charged with crimes against humanity. A report by the Prosecutor Generals Office said that the Colombian army has executed over 3,900 civilians to artificially drive up its success rate in fighting leftist rebels, paramilitaries, and drug traffickers. Meanwhile, the Justice Ministry issued a ruling to redistribute four rural lands seized by the government from criminal organizations to families forcibly removed from their lands. A judge in Chile closed a case that investigated hundreds of overseas bank accounts owned by former dictator Augusto Pinochet, saying that the inquiry found no evidence to support charges that Pinochets relatives helped the ex-dictator hide money. Brazil has digitized nearly one million pages of legal documents that implicate the Military Supreme Court in the use of torture against political opponents. Thanks to the efforts of the Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo, an Argentine man recently discovered that, as a baby, he was taken from his revolutionary Chilean parents by the Argentine government. In El Salvador, thousands of war veterans marched to demand that the government pass a bill that grants monthly pension and other benefits to those who fought during the civil war. Three Guatemalan judges who convicted former dictator Efrain Rios Montt for genocide will receive protection from the state. In Canada, First Nations leaders and human rights specialists plan to pressure the federal government to acknowledge that the countrys treatment of native people was in fact genocide.
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ASIA Myanmar openly commemorated the 1988 pro-democracy uprising to end the military dictatorship that ended in bloodshed. President Thein Sein created a national reform committee to help guide the countrys transition to democracy in a people-centered development approach. Student rebels, meanwhile, signed a 12-point peace agreement with the government that said both sides would work to ensure a nationwide cease-fire while keeping all parties accountable, to form an independent monitoring team for the peace process, to increase political participation among other provisions. A Khmer Rouge research organization, the Documentation Center of Cambodia, is working to create an archive of human rights abuses in Myanmar. A murder case from the insurgency in Nepal has stirred national debate between human rights groups and political figures in the country. The parents of a young victim are demanding justice for the Maoists they claim are responsible for their sons death. In Thailand, thousands protested the national parliaments discussion of a political amnesty bill that would amnesty those involved in politically-charged violence since 2006.
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EUROPE 98-year old Laszlo Csatary, a former Hungarian police officer named the most-wanted Nazi war crimes suspect, died of pneumonia ahead of a trial for accusations of sending over 15,000 Jews to Auschwitz. Former Bosnian Serb political leader Radovan Karadzics trial, which was reinstated in July, has been suspended until October so he can prepare his defense for charges of genocide. Experts in Bosnia say the road towards reconciliation is made harder by ethnic divisions developing in the younger generation. EU prosecutors are investigating a massacre by Serbian forces at the Dubrava jail during the Kosovo war in 1999 which left up to 130 ethnic Albanian prisoners dead.
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MENA Egypt has been wracked with violence since the military ousted president Mohamed Morsi. After a sixweek standoff with protesters, the military violently broke up pro-Morsi demonstrations in its bloodiest confrontation yet, leaving more than 600 dead. Meanwhile, a court has ordered the release of deposed Egyptian leader Hosni Mubarak. Tunisia, which has also been experiencing political instability and violence since the assassination of a prominent opposition leader last month, has suspended parliament. The government has refused to dissolve or change the interim government, amidst protests calling for change. As part of ongoing peace talks with the Palestinians, Israel released 26 prisoners ahead of an announcement that it would expand settlements, building more than 1,000 housing units in East Jerusalem and the West Bank. In Syria, the opposition proposed a 233-page constitutional, political, economic, and transitional justice roadmap to national reconciliation that includes removing President Bashar al-Assad and his inner circle, establishing a hybrid presidential and parliamentary system, and reforming security services.
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