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- Title
Accountability in the Balance: Trials Before the Special Panels for Serious Crimes in East Timor 1999-2005.
- Authors
Cohen, David
- Abstract
From 2000-05 the United Nations operated a so-called 'hybrid' tribunal in East Timor to provide accountability to the Timorese people for crimes committed in their country in 1999 and to fulfil a number of other articulated goals as well. This chapter examines the political, legal and social context that shaped the creation, operation and function of this tribunal and evaluates its successes and failures, both in achieving justice for the Timorese people, as well as serving as a potential model for the other such tribunals. This analysis leads to the conclusion that, whatever a national government may choose to do, the United Nations should not create or cooperate with a justice process that does not meet the standards of the rule of law and respect for international principles of justice that that organisation purports to represent. In East Timor too often those standards were not met because of a lack of commitment and political will on the part of those in leadership positions in the UN and in the Timorese government to ensure that the justice process was worthy of that name.
- Subjects
TIMOR-Leste; UNITED Nations; ADMINISTRATIVE courts; CRIME; EAST Timorese; JUSTICE
- Publication
Law in Context, 2009, Vol 27, Issue 1, p103
- ISSN
0811-5796
- Publication type
Article