Dear all,
A new, excellent article is now available under the “articles” section at the JSMP resources website: http://www.jsmp.minihub.org
Suzannah Linton, Cambodia, East Timor and Sierra Leone: Experiments in International Justice (Criminal Law Forum 12: 185-246, 2001, Kluwer Academic Publishers)
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Suzannah Linton
Cambodia, East Timor and
Sierra Leone:
Experiments in International
Justice
Criminal Law Forum 12: 185-246,
2001
Kluwer Academic Publishers
Introduction:
In Cambodia, East Timor and Sierra Leone, the United Nations has been involved in efforts to create a new species of tribunal for the prosecution of international crimes. These are the “internationalised domestic tribunals”, grafted onto the judicial structure of a nation where massive violations of human rights and humanitarian law have taken place, or created as a treaty based organ, separate from that structure. In a radical move away from the earlier prevailing wisdom that the non-inclusion in any position of nationals of the country most affected would preserve impartiality, objectivity and neutrality, mixed panels of international and local judges have jurisdiction to try crimes such as genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes. The cases are brought by prosecuting agencies that are also mixed in composition.
This latest of transitional justice options is one that came into being with the 1999 round of United Nations-Cambodia negotiations on a tribunal for Cambodia, with East Timor being the first to implement such a scheme in 2000 (Kosovo’s planned War and Ethnic Crimes Court project has been abandoned, but international judges and prosecutors continue to work within the courts of Kosovo on war and ethnically motivated crimes). In each of Cambodia, East Timor and Sierra Leone, there have been persistent calls for the establishment of ad hoc tribunals along the lines of those created for Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia. The internationalised tribunals are a half-way house, a hybrid containing elements of domestic prosecutions and an international process.
For internationalised tribunals to be correctly understood, they must first be recognised as being one of a range of transitional justice options, from those of a judicial nature to non-judicial truth seeking mechanisms, available to nations seeking to address a legacy of violence. A single initiative on its own is unlikely to bring about a peaceful, stable and restored nation. The answer may lie in a combination of options.
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Administration in East Timor, the East Timorese public and the international
community by making recommendations for ongoing reform of the fledgling
judicial system of East Timor.
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See also:
BD: War Crimes & Crimes Against Humanity - A collection of recent press releases, petitions, articles and news
BD: Calls for International War Crimes Tribunal - A collection of recent reports, articles and news
BD: East Timor's Judicial System - A collection of recent reports, articles and news