Category: Interview
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SRI LANKA / Shreen Saroor, Civil society & Founder, Mannar Women’s Development Federation
Sri Lanka went through a thirty-year long civil war, opposing Sri Lankan governmental forces and the Tamil rebel group, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. The conflict ended in a bloodshed in 2009, killing 40 000 civilians, according to United Nations’ estimates. War crimes and crimes against humanity were allegedly committed by both parties to…
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COLOMBIA / Sebastián Escobar, Colectivo de Abogados “José Alvear Restrepo”
Interview conducted by Ludmila CARTIER ( 2019) → How could we define the extent of victims’ participation in the proceedings of the SJP and what are their rights? I do not believe that the victims participation framework has been fully defined yet. The Special Jurisdiction for Peace remains a sui generis procedure which has just…
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SYRIA / Bénédict de Moerloose, Lawyer and Head of International Investigations and Litigation at TRIAL International
Interviewed on 27 March 2018 1. Do you see universal jurisdiction before European courts as the last and only option for Syrian victims to access justice? Can we hope for a better, more comprehensive alternative in the future? For now, it is the only option. As we know, there has been no referral from the…
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UGANDA / Lino Owor Ogora, Director of the Foundation for Justice and Development Initiatives (working to promote justice in Northern Uganda)
In your view, are victims being better served by international (ICC) or domestic (ICD) proceedings? It is difficult to tell which court is serving Ugandans better, but in my opinion the ICC is proving to be more effective at the moment. Dominic Ongwen’s case has been fast-tracked and is now almost halfway through. That of…
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