ENOUGH Project (Washington, DC)
21 July 2008
press release
The Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court sent a chilling message to war criminals around the world last week when he requested an arrest warrant against Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir. Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe and his cronies are almost certainly paying close attention.
A report released jointly today by the ENOUGH Project and Impunity Watch examines the legal options available to hold Mr. Mugabe and others to account for a laundry list of crimes committed during his nearly three decade rule — from the massacre of 20,000 Ndebele civilians in the early 1980s to the continuing post-election crackdown against the political opposition.
“Justice for Zimbabwe should be approached under the combined efforts of a hybrid international tribunal, or a domestic court with international assistance and support,” says David M. Crane, a co-author of the report, Professor at Syracuse University College of Law, and former founding Chief Prosecutor of The Special Court for Sierra Leone. “The longer Mr. Mugabe abuses the power of the state and thwarts the legitimate and democratic will of the people of Zimbabwe to express their rights, the more the question of accountability gains traction,” says ENOUGH Executive Director John Norris. “The question of justice in Zimbabwe should ultimately be a question of when, not if.”
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The Impunity Watch Mission is to monitor and address horrific human rights abuses and possible situations of impunity.
ENOUGH is a project of the Center for American Progress to end genocide and crimes against humanity. To learn more, go to www.enoughproject.org
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great to see people doing the right thing by the people murdered by the Butcher of Harare. Lets hope their case against Mugabe is water tight and justice is done.
The Bucthers also include George Bush, Tony Blair, Gordon Brown who are killing civilian Iraq's and civilian Afghans over a period of 6 years. Why are you people from the western countries so blind that you refuse to see the genocide in Iraq and Afghanstan? I live in Zimbabwe and saw what happened post elections. The violence was from both sides and I would say 50-50 and those true Zimbabweans can confirm this. The propaganda machinery of CNN and BBC have failed to recognise that ZANU PF supporters were also killed by MDC Demecratic Resistance Movement thugs who were armed… [Read Full Text]
Your post clearly shows you are telling lies. I'll show you where. You say the MDC Restistance Movement (which I've never heard of and I'm sure you are making up) was armed by the US.
Do you think the US posted over a whole lot of sticks and pipes for the MDC to use? If the US were going to arm the opposition, they would have send over guns and grenades etc, which werent used. So clearly this is a lie. And you are extremetly stupid for thinking people will believe you.
And this simple mistake by you makes me… [Read Full Text]
I seen this type of comment all the time from Zanoids. OK, lets see your evidence and I will how you mine. I have a book of photographs, submissions and statements from independent observers. WHERE IS YOURS>?
Justice ?? What justice??? You seem to have a selective sense of justice !!! How about Ian Smith and his henchmen most of whom are in Perth, Australia??? Are you going to bring them to justice for the murders and slaughters they did in Rhodesia??? How about the thousands SHONAs who were murdered in and around BULAWAYO between 1981 up to the time when the Fifth Brigade was sent quell the lawlessness and the breakdown of order in the west of the country? Remember INTUMBANE when SHONAs were killed just for being SHONAs despite that some of these… [Read Full Text]
Akapfunde, You are absolutely right. It's amazing how selective white racist are about "justice" or is it "justus" in their twisted minds. They have for the last 500+ years committed all kinds of injustices against every one they came in contact with and now have the gall to talk about "justice" in Zimbabwe. Yes, let's have justice starting with them first, when that is achieved then we can turn to Africa. We don't even need to go back to the Atlantic Slave Trade that they conducted for hundreds of years and which devastated Africa, we can begin with the Berlin… [Read Full Text]
You two seem to condone killings, maiming and rape of Zimbabwean citizens who did not think like maverick Mugabe!
I do not wish that you first witness the killing, maiming and raping of your own wife, daughter or sister by Mugabe cronies before you start reacting like normal people do!!
Killings by Ian Smith as much as killings by illegitimate Mugabe must be viewed by the same standard of rigidity.
How long and how much are you benefitting from the atrocious rule of maverick Mugabe that you are so blindly defending what should never be defended?
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Mugabe should be proce cuted also for instructicting his thugs to kill and burn people alive.