Day: July 10, 2013
Amnesty for what?
Rilind Latifi, a Kosovar graduate of the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, explains:
The Kosovo parliament last week rejected a draft law on amnesty required as a result of the agreement reached on April 19 between the prime-ministers Hashim Thaçi and Ivica Dačić. The law is intended to facilitate integration of the Serbs in the north. It offers them protection from legal action due to their resistance to Kosovo’s constitutional order since the 2008 declaration of independence, after which they burned customs points and erected multiple barricades blocking free movement (including for the EU rule of law mission, NATO’s KFOR, and the Kosovo police). Serbia views the amnesty law as a tradeoff and precondition dismantling Belgrade’s governing structures in the north. Read more
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Syria: bad to worse
What do you do about the killers when the war is over?
It’s not easy to summarize the discussions I was privileged to participate in the week before last with Syrian opposition folks assembled in Istanbul by the Syria Justice and Accountability Centre (with support from the Public International Law and Policy Group) to discuss institutional reform aspects of transitional justice after the fall of Bashar al Asad. The group, which included activists as well as a few fighters and several minorities but no vigorous Islamists, viewed transitional justice as a kind of compromise, second-best justice, adequate and even necessary for straitened post-war circumstances should the opposition win and intended to promote security and reconciliation, but far from ideal. Read more
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