Wednesday, April 2, 2008
Interesting article about a hybrid tribunal
This article is about a commission in Guatemala that was established to investigate organized crime. While not technically about war crimes, the violence stems from Guatemala's civil war in the 1970s. I thought it was relevant to what we talked about last week because it is a sort of hybrid, or third generation, tribunal. One major problem it suffers from is its inability to protect witnesses, which is a problem we've seen with the ICTR (a second generation tribunal). In addition, the head of CICIG (the International Commission Against Impunity in Guatemala) lacks the ability to subpoena or indict anyone, which is rather the opposite of what we see in the ICC. Anyway, have a read. It's an interesting article.
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That definitely is an interesting idea. I'll be interested to see if it works. The article said that after the investigations were completed, it was then the decision of the Guatemalan courts to prosecute the suspects. Do you (or anyone else) have any idea how independent the Guatemalan courts are? I don't know much about Guatemala, but considering the amount of corruption in other aspects of its society, I'm going to guess they aren't very independent. So if people with connections to the state are the suspects, will these courts ever actually try them? I like the idea of this commission, I'm just wondering if practically it will have any effectiveness.
I can has social...making up? (I can't remember the word I want-- I hasn't had mah coffee yet)
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No, I no has buukkcase. That lil anecdote is from when I was moving to pgh.
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