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Today, the Paris “Cour d’assises” confirmed the 2022 guilty verdict and found Kunti Kamara, former Liberian ULIMO rebel commander, guilty of complicity in crimes against humanity, and commission of simple and aggravated acts of torture and barbarism.
There’s a lot going on this month in the field of international law, including Switzerland, with the referral to the FCC of the former Vice-President of Syria, Rifaat al-Assad, for trial on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
“If you think that too many people are being killed, perhaps you should supply fewer weapons”, said the EU’s chief diplomat; Josep Borrell should also put his own house in order.
Today, January 31, 2024, the Turku Court of Appeal issued its judgement and confirmed the acquittal of Gibril Massaquoi – former RUF commander and spokesman – for war crimes, crimes against humanity, torture, and murder.
WE DID NOT hear these words pronounced by upcoming President Joseph Boakai, as he delivered his inauguration address on January 22 at Capital Building – cut short as the President possibly experienced heat fatigue.
2023 was a landmark year for international justice, with the historic appeal judgement on the Alieu Kosiah case handed down in June by the Swiss Federal Criminal Court.
For this final international law column of 2023, and despite the rising tensions, especially in the Middle East, I wanted to end the year on an optimistic note.
At a time where the conflict in the Middle East is becoming more bloody and intense by the day, the international mechanism that should be the guarantor of global security, the UN, continues to demonstrate its essential role.
These past weeks, there has once again been considerable movement on the front of international justice both in Switzerland and in France.
Saturday T. was charged in France for his alleged involvement in crimes against humanity committed during the First Liberian Civil War (1989-1996) where he is believed to have been acting as a commander for the NPFL.
Exactly 30 years ago, in the summer of 1993, a group of rebel soldiers sowed unheard-of terror in the town of Foya, in the small West African country of Liberia, then ravaged by civil war.
The Federal Criminal Court had – in its judgement of July 19, 2022, ordered the Federal Office of Justice (FOJ) to issue an international arrest warrant for the former Syrian Vice-President and uncle of Bashar al-Assad, Rifaat al-Assad.
