Perspectives on Legal Justice and Victim Reparations in the Diasporic African Great Lakes Region

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11 - Perspectives on Legal Justice and Victim Reparations in the Diasporic African Great Lakes Region

from Part III - Ethics of Witnessing

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 October 2019

Helen Hintjens and

Jackson Odong

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Nergis Canefe

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York University, Toronto

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This chapter is an inquiry about how punishment of perpetrators is related to reparation for the victims, drawing on specific examples from the African Great Lakes region. To date, the most well-known cases are the Lubanga case at the International Criminal Court(ICC) related to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), and the Bemba case, where a former rebel leader and politician from the DRC was charged with war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in the Central African Republic (CAR). The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) cases for Rwanda have been exhaustively researched; less known is the Mau Mau court case brought by Kenyan Mau Mau victims in British courts. Finally, through the ICC and the International Crimes Division (ICD) of the High Court of Uganda, some of the crimes committed in Uganda are being tried, though only those of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), and not those of government soldiers or officials.

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Information: Transitional Justice and Forced Migration
Critical Perspectives from the Global South
, pp. 272 - 293

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108380072.013 [Opens in a new window]

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