Remembrance, universal jurisdiction and the Rwanda/DR Congo case

  • Jordi Palou-Loverdos
DOI: https://doi.org/10.18543/aahdh-13-2015pp15-62
Keywords: judicial and non-judicial mechanisms, transitional justice, remembrance, truth, justice, reparation, Rwanda, democratic Republic of Congo, International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), international, national and traditional justice

Abstract

In the twentieth anniversary of the Srebrenica and Kibeho massacres, both executed under the presence of UN blue helmets, its timely to approach judicial and non-judicial mechanisms of transitional justice been used to face human right abuses of the past. Human tragedies of Rwanda and the democratic Republic of Congo are still devastating despite of developed initiatives about truth, justice and reparation. dialogue processes and universal jurisdiction initiatives inspired by international civil society depict a window of hope. National and international impacts of the Rwanda-DR Congo case judicial process, as the effects of the cancellation of universal jurisdiction in Spain, after ten years of open judicial inquiry, are presented to invite to a critical reflection.

Received: 25 July 2015
Accepted: 30 November 2015
Published online: 11 December 2017

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Author Biography

Jordi Palou-Loverdos

Abogado acreditado ante la corte Penal Internacional (La Haya). Miembro del colegio de Abogados Penal Internacional (La Haya). Mediador en conflictos, facilitador principal de la iniciativa internacional del diálogo IntraRuandés (dIR). Representante legal de víctimas españolas, ruandesas y del Forum Internacional para la Verdad y la Justicia en África de los Grandes Lagos (www.veritasrwandaforum.org). Director del Memorial Democrático de la Generalitat de Catalunya.

Published
2017-12-11
How to Cite
Palou-Loverdos, Jordi. 2017. “Remembrance, Universal Jurisdiction and the Rwanda/DR Congo Case”. Deusto Journal of Human Rights, no. 13 (December), 15-62. https://doi.org/10.18543/aahdh-13-2015pp15-62.
Issue
No. 13 (2015)
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Articles

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