LAWFARE AND WAR CRIMES TRIBUNAL: The Take Down: Case Studies Regarding 'Lawfare' in International Criminal Justice: The West African Experience
In: Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law, Jg. 43 (2010), S. 201
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I. The Situation The civil war in Sierra Leone ripped apart an entire region of West Africa. Spawned by the President of Libya, Colonel Muammar Ghaddafi, and supported by Presidents Blase Compare of Burkina Faso and Charles Taylor of Liberia, this take-over of an entire country for their own personal criminal gain was a rare event in conflict not seen since the middle ages. The West African Joint Criminal Enterprise was designed to support the geo-political takeover of West Africa by Ghaddafi where surrogates such as Compare and Taylor, among others, would control the region on his behalf. Fueled by diamonds, gold, and timber, these commodities were traded for cash to pad the coffers of three heads of state, gun runners, diamond dealers, and boy-generals, and to buy weapons to take down not only Burkina Faso, Liberia, but Sierra Leone, the Ivory Coast, and Guinea. 1 The result of this enterprise was the complete destruction of two countries, Liberia and Sierra Leone, where women and children were brutalized and forced into the rebel forces as either bush wives or child soldiers respectively, and the murder, rape, and maiming of around 1.2 million human beings occurred. The civil war in Sierra Leone was indicative of the horror of a succession of internal armed conflicts, which saw the chopping off of limbs as a way to intimidate and terrorize the populace into submission. The world recoiled in horror. 2 II. The Mission In an attempt to stop this ...
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LAWFARE AND WAR CRIMES TRIBUNAL: The Take Down: Case Studies Regarding 'Lawfare' in International Criminal Justice: The West African Experience
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Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: | Crane, David M. |
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Zeitschrift: | Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law, Jg. 43 (2010), S. 201 |
Veröffentlichung: | 2010 |
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