Justice Belied

The Unbalanced Scales of International Criminal Justice

Ebook

For the first time in a book, defence counsel, investigators, journalists, and academics pool their knowledge and experience to answer the burning questions. What has happened to the fundamental principles of the sovereign equality of nations and the right of self-determination? Why do international criminal tribunals target Africa? How has international criminal justice affected the lives of citizens throughout the world? What about universal jurisdiction? Does foreign policy trump justice?
The seventeen essays in this broadly scoped collection are grouped in four parts: 1) International Criminal Justice in the Eyes of Africans and African Americans; 2) The ad hoc International Criminal Tribunals; 3) Universal Jurisdiction … in a Single Country; 4) Justice for All?
Contributors include Chief Charles A. Taku, Michel Chossudovsky, Glen Ford of the Black Agenda Report, Théogène Rudasingwa, Jordi Palou-Loverdos, Philippe Larochelle, Beth S. Lyons, André Sirois, David Jacobs, Fannie Lafontaine, Phil Taylor and more.
Justice Belied marks a turning point in understanding how tainted international criminal justice undermines political solutions and imposes superpower dictat.

Table of contents

Table of contents
Justice Belied 1
Contents 9
List of Acronyms 11
Introduction 13
PART I 17
International Criminal Justice in the Eyes of Africans and African Americans 17
1 African Court and International Criminal Courts: Discriminatory International Justice and the Quest for a New World Judicial Order 19
2 The Ailing Empire’s Full Spectrum Dominance 47
3 Victoire Ingabire: Chronology of a Pinochet-style Case of Repression 55
4 The Fabrication of Evidence before the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda 67
5 Charles Taylor: The Special Courtfor Sierra Leone and Questionable Verdicts 77
6 The Seven Challenges for Truthand Justice in Rwanda 91
7 The ICC and Kenya: Going Beyond the Rhetoric 99
PART II 113
The ad hoc InternationalCriminal Tribunals 113
8 The Heart of Dark Jurisprudence 115
9 Prosecutorial Failure to Disclose Exculpatory Material: A Death Knell to Fairness 127
10 Lessons Learned from the Bad Beginnings of The International Tribunal for Rwanda 143
11 The Dubious Heritage of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda 161
12 “The ICTR is war by other means”—Ramsey Clark 179
PART III 187
Universal Jurisdiction…in a Single Country 187
13 Transitional Justice in Rwanda and DemocraticRepublic of the Congo: From War to Peace? 189
14 The Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Tribunal: Interview with Professor Michel Chossudovsky 211
PART IV 217
Justice for All? 217
15 And Justice for All? International Criminal Justice in the Time of High Expectations 219
16 How the International Criminal Law Movement Undermined International Law—Michael Mandel’s Groundbreaking Analyses 239
17 International Criminal Law:An Instrument of United States Foreign Policy 251
Conclusion 271
The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda and Trials 271
The International Criminal Court 272
War and Peace: Lessons 273
Only a Beginning 275
The Future 275
Notes 276
Contributors 277
Acknowledgements 281
MORE NONFICTION FROM BARAKA BOOKS 283