Archivo etiqueta «Crímenes de guerra o contra la Humanidad»
By Mike Abramowitz, director of the genocide prevention program of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and Mark Sarna, a member of the program’s advisory board and a son of Holocaust survivors (THE WASHINGTON POST, 22/11/11):
A few hours outside of Cambodia’s capital, 58-year-old Taing Kim, a delicate woman who spent several years as a nun, lives in a gray concrete house in the middle of a quiet village amid a sea of rice paddies. She settled in Kampong Chhnang nearly 30 years ago and makes her living by farming and selling firewood. She was married in 1980 but … Seguir leyendo
By Philippe Sands QC, a barrister in the Matrix Chambers and a professor of international law at University College London. He is the author of Torture Team (THE GUARDIAN, 20/11/11):
Gaunt, frightened and with nowhere left to go, a captured Saif Gaddafi confronts the new Libyan government with a dilemma: whether or not to ship him off to The Hague.
In reality, the government’s room for manoeuvre may be more limited than it thinks. In March, when security council resolution 1970 referred the situation in Libya to the prosecutor of the international criminal court, it internationalised the judicial response to … Seguir leyendo
Por Prudencio García, investigador de la Fundación Acción Pro Derechos Humanos y Fellow del IUS de Chicago, y profesor del Instituto Gutiérrez Mellado de la UNED (EL PÁIS, 12/11/11):
La terrorífica jauría de secuestradores, torturadores y asesinos de la Escuela de Mecánica de la Armada, cuya siniestra sigla (ESMA) fue motivo de horror en Argentina durante años de crímenes abominables y posteriores décadas de vergonzosa impunidad, acaba de ser, al fin, sentenciada por la justicia argentina. Aquellas fieras desalmadas, conocidas por sus famosos nombres y sobrenombres, como el Tigre (Jorge Acosta), el Ángel de la Muerte (Alfredo Astiz), el muy … Seguir leyendo
Por Dominique Moisi, autor de The Geopolitics of Emotion (Project Syndicate, 19/10/11):
El arrepentimiento nacional vuelve a estar en las noticias, como lo ha estado con una frecuencia considerable en los últimos años. En 2008, el entonces primer ministro de Australia Kevin Rudd pidió disculpas a los aborígenes de su país, mientras que la reina Isabel II ofreció un gesto conmovedor de contrición en Irlanda hace unos meses. Y ahora el presidente francés, Nicolas Sarkozy, en una visita reciente al Cáucaso, reiteró su consejo a los turcos de “arrepentirse” por las masacres de armenios cometidas en 1915 por el … Seguir leyendo
Por Ariel Dorfman, escritor chileno y autor de Purgatorio, de próximo estreno en el Teatro Español de Madrid (EL PAÍS, 15/10/11):
Dick Cheney tiene miedo de que lo vayan a pinochetear.
No es invento mío, ni la noticia ni tampoco el vocablo tan extraño, aun más peregrino en inglés que en castellano. Al que se le ocurrió retorcer el nombre del exdictador chileno para convertirlo en verbo soez, fue nada menos que el coronel Lawrence Wilkerson, quien ejerciera de jefe de gabinete de Colin Powell, y utilizó esa palabra para sugerir que Cheney teme que, como Pinochet, lo pueden … Seguir leyendo
Por Mario Vargas Llosa © Derechos mundiales de prensa en todas las lenguas reservados a Ediciones EL PAÍS, SL, 2011. © Mario Vargas Llosa, 2011 (EL PAÍS, 09/10/11):
Hace por lo menos tres décadas que no leía un Premio Goncourt. En los años sesenta, cuando trabajaba en la Radio Televisión Francesa, lo hacía de manera obligatoria, pues debíamos dedicarle el programa La literatura en debate, en el que, con Jorge Edwards, Carlos Semprún y Jean Supervielle pasábamos revista semanal a la actualidad literaria francesa. O mi memoria es injusta, o aquellos premios eran bastante flojos, pues no recuerdo uno solo … Seguir leyendo
By Simon Adams, executive director of the Global Center for the Responsibility to Protect in New York (LOS ANGELES TIMES, 28/09/11):
The Palestinian bid for statehood and traffic congestion weren’t the only things going on in New York last week as the 66th U.N. General Assembly convened. One of the issues privately discussed by foreign ministers at the United Nations was the “responsibility to protect,” or R2P. This concept was central to the U.N. mandate to protect civilians in Libya, which led to NATO’s aerial involvement there. As the dust settles in Tripoli, it has become necessary to refute … Seguir leyendo
By Kathryn Sikkink, a professor of political science at the University of Minnesota and the author of The Justice Cascade: How Human Rights Prosecutions Are Changing World Politics (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 16/09/11):
Time is running out for former government officials accused of murder, genocide and crimes against humanity. In the past few months, the final Serbian war-crimes fugitives were extradited to The Hague, the trial of the former Egyptian president, Hosni Mubarak, began in Cairo, and the International Criminal Court opened hearings on the post-election violence that plagued Kenya in 2007-8.
These events have provoked a chorus … Seguir leyendo
Por Monika Zgustova, escritora (EL PAÍS, 04/09/11):
El juicio a Ratko Mladic, responsable junto a Radovan Karadzic de la masacre de Srebrenica, nos recuerda la tragedia que el pueblo bosnio vivió hace 16 años. Quien quiera revivirla puede leer el testimonio que dejó uno de sus escasos supervivientes, Emir Suljagic, en su impresionante libro Postales desde la tumba.
El nombre de Srebrenica despierta en mí dos asociaciones contradictorias: la sensación de horror y la imagen de la belleza. Sí, belleza, porque el nombre de esa pequeña ciudad bosnia evoca un torrente o una fuente de plata, o tal vez … Seguir leyendo
By David Kaye, the executive director of the International Human Rights Law Program at the University of California, Los Angeles (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 02/09/11):
Libya’s rebel leaders say they want to try Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, if and when he is captured, in Libyan courts. In principle, Libyans deserve the satisfaction that only domestic justice can bring. National trials would advance the rule of law and allow Libyans to fully own their political transition.
One problem: the International Criminal Court, based 1,400 miles away in The Hague, has already issued arrest warrants for Colonel Qaddafi, his son and second-in-command … Seguir leyendo
By Geoffrey Robertson QC , head of Doughty Street Chambers and the co‑author of Robertson and Nicol on Media Law (THE GUARDIAN, 28/08/11):
The fall of a tyrant is usually the cause of popular rejoicing followed by public vengeance. This is the fate the rebels obviously want for Colonel Gaddafi – hence their £1m bounty on his head and offer of a pardon for his killer. But it is just possible, should he be taken alive, that we will enter a new and better era in which tyrants will instead be dispatched to The Hague for fair trial in an … Seguir leyendo
Por Prudencio García, investigador de la Comisión de Esclarecimiento Histórico de la ONU sobre Guatemala, fellow del IUS de Chicago y profesor del Instituto Gutiérrez Mellado de la UNED (EL PAÍS, 26/08/11):
En la sala del Tribunal de Alto Riesgo de la ciudad de Guatemala, bajo la presidencia de la juez Jazmín Barrios, la voz firme y serena de la juez vocal Patricia Bustamante sonó especialmente rotunda cuando leyó: “Quedó demostrado que los militares actuaron de forma planificada, con ensañamiento y perversidad”.
La sentencia se refiere a los hechos producidos principalmente el 7 de diciembre de 1982, cuando una … Seguir leyendo
By Mark S. Ellis, executive director of the International Bar Association (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 12/08/11):
At a recent press conference in London, Britain’s foreign secretary, William Hague, provided some well-meaning but flawed counsel regarding the fate of Muammar el-Qaddafi: The Libyan president should relinquish power and retire with possible impunity either in Libya or some safe-haven country.
When asked by a journalist if the offer of impunity contravened the International Criminal Court’s indictment for Qaddafi’s arrest, Hague answered, “The British government is very in favor of the powers of the I.C.C. and the requirements of the I.C.C. being … Seguir leyendo
By Mordechai I. Twersky, a freelance writer and broadcast journalist and a doctoral student in Jewish history at Bar-Ilan University in Ramat Gan, Israel (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 10/08/11):
Here in the land of Tevye, the roosters still crow. Cows graze in open fields. But Tevye doesn’t live here anymore.
I have set out from Israel to Ukraine to trace my ancestors. My first stop is west of Kiev, in a corner of the czarist-era Pale of Settlement for Jews, where “Fiddler on the Roof” was set. Here sits an old Jewish cemetery, now a plowed-over field. It bears … Seguir leyendo
By Richard Dicker, the international justice director at Human Rights Watch (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 01/08/11):
When the United Nations Security Council unanimously referred the situation in Libya to the International Criminal Court prosecutor on Feb. 26, it made clear that impunity for crimes against humanity threatens international peace and security. The referral sent a strong message that systematic attacks with deadly force against peaceful protesters have criminal consequences.
Now, the governments that took the lead in the 15-to-0 Security Council vote — Britain, France and the United States — seem to be negotiating a deal that, if it … Seguir leyendo