Seeking Justice for Zimbabwe: A Case for Accountability Against Robert Mugabe and Others, 1981-2008
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This report was released jointly by !Enough and Impunity Watch. It came out yesterday – the same day Robert Mugabe and Morgan Tsvangirai and Arthur Mutambara were signing their Memorandum of Understanding. It explores the “Legal options available in holding accountable President Robert Mugabe for possible international crimes”:
“This discussion paper will highlight the parameters of the legal options available to hold President Robert Mugabe accountable for various international crimes. It must be stressed that political and diplomatic options impact on the legal options. To a large degree it will be a political decision as to whether Mugabe should be held accountable, though the development of an accountability/justice model to be used, should the decision be taken to investigate Mugabe, is appropriate now.
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The mandate should be prosecuting either Mugabe himself alone or those who bear the greatest responsibility for the crimes committed in Zimbabwe, to include Mugabe and selected henchmen. The facts will bear out who those possible indictees are.
The crimes committed are both international and domestic in scope. It appears the international crimes are largely crimes against humanity. Using the Rome Statute as a guide, Article 7, crimes against humanity, some charges would include persecution, imprisonment and other severe deprivation of personal liberty, as well as other inhumane acts that intentionally cause great suffering, all pursuant to a state policy.”
It can be downloaded from the !Enough website, or from the Impunity Watch site. We have also archived it on our site so it appears alongside our violence map.
July 22nd, 2008 23:39
Speaking in London as a guest in the Houses of Parliament Keyan prime minister Raila Odinga spoke on London’s wave of violent knife crimes and suggested an alternative policy to Gordon Browns tougher stance which should ‘…be flexible enough to reach a compromise…’ and give knife wielding youths a safe place to exit for the sake of the people in London. Now isn’t that just plain ridiculous.
Sorry, my mistake… he was referring to Mugabe being given safe exit for the sake of Zimbabweans.
Well, that’s alright then!
Now I see the problem for London criminals and the Metropolitan police. The crimes aren’t widespread, severe or frequent enough to ignore and/or pardon.
July 23rd, 2008 23:39
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