2013
DOI: 10.1093/ejil/cht042
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Prosecuting International Crimes in Africa: Rationale, Prospects and Challenges

Abstract: The January 2013 Summit of Assembly of the African Union Heads of State, to which its July 2012 predecessor had deferred the matter concerning the conferment on the African Court of international criminal jurisdiction, did not adopt the enabling Protocol. Instead, it requested that the AU Commission 'conduct a more thorough reflection … on the issue of popular uprising … on the appropriate mechanism capable of deciding the legitimacy of such an uprising … and [to] submit a report on the financial and structura… Show more

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“…Como hemos visto, el caso Hissène Habré ha iniciado el camino en esta dirección, contrariando las opiniones de aquellos que, con buen criterio, dadas las circunstancias del momento, consideraron hace poco más de un lustro que el ejercicio de la justicia penal internacional en África era un imposible (Abass, 2013). Ante esta situación, la CPI, y, también la UA, tienen un importante papel que desempeñar, pues en virtud de la complementariedad positiva podrán asistir a los estados africanos en el ejercicio de la investigación y persecución de crímenes internacionales.…”
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“…Como hemos visto, el caso Hissène Habré ha iniciado el camino en esta dirección, contrariando las opiniones de aquellos que, con buen criterio, dadas las circunstancias del momento, consideraron hace poco más de un lustro que el ejercicio de la justicia penal internacional en África era un imposible (Abass, 2013). Ante esta situación, la CPI, y, también la UA, tienen un importante papel que desempeñar, pues en virtud de la complementariedad positiva podrán asistir a los estados africanos en el ejercicio de la investigación y persecución de crímenes internacionales.…”
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“…No puede afirmarse que la propuesta de crear un Sistema de Justicia Penal Internacional en África sea del todo novedosa. Durante los debates previos a la adopción de la Carta Africana de Derechos Humanos y de los Pueblos se planteó la posibilidad de crear un órgano jurisdiccional con competencia rationae materiae sobre crímenes de derecho internacional, que finalmente fue rechazada por el Comité de expertos responsable de su elaboración (Abass, 2013). Especialmente, dicha posibilidad parecía quedar descartada a raíz de la creación del Sistema Africano de Protección de Derechos Humanos, de un lado, y el establecimiento de la CPI, de otro.…”
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“…African states had discussed the possibility of creating a regional criminal court in the 1970s during the process of codifying the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights. 37 This earlier initiative aimed to be able to prosecute the crime of apartheid, but was abandoned, pending the 'international penal tribunal' envisaged in the Apartheid Convention. 38 Twenty years later, they were initially relatively inactive on the issue of establishing an ICC.…”
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“…It is envisioned that the jurisdiction of the ACJHR will be complementary to national courts as well as the courts of the Regional Economic Communities ("REC"), such as the Economic Community of West African States ("ECOWAS"), the Community of Sahel-Saharan States ("CENSAD"), the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa ("COMESA"), and the South African Development Community ("SADC"), even though these latter courts ordinarily do not mete out individual criminal responsibility. 499 Accordingly, all national and regional courts would have to have failed to move forward in order for the proposed ACJHR to have jurisdiction. The ACJHR Protocol's provision regarding this relationship tracks Article 17 of the Rome Statute, which contains the ICC's complementarity regime, but makes no mention of that Court itself 500 Thirty-three AU member states are also parties to the Rome Statute and some have adopted legislation implementing their ICC obligations to cooperate with the Court; this may give rise to conflicting obligations in those states and create overlapping jurisdiction.…”
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