Legal representatives of victims have proposed that the International Criminal Court (ICC) should first issue a reparations order before it contacts victims that wish to benefit from reparations in the Bosco Ntaganda case.
In submissions to judges who will determine the nature of the reparations, victims' lawyer Dmytro Suprun suggested that no application-based process should be carried out to establish the victims entitled to reparations. "Prior to the reparation order, nothing more than a preliminary mapping exercise of the number of potential beneficiaries should be carried out for the purposes of assessing the cost of repair and thus fixing a reparation award," he said. "To be clear, there should not be any collection of forms for reparations at any stage."
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