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Truth Commissions and Courts Working in Parallel: The Sierra Leone Experience

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2017

William A. Schabas
William A. Schabas*
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National University of Ireland, Galway
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Accountability for War Crimes: What Roles for National, International, and Hybrid Tribunals?
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Proceedings of the ASIL Annual Meeting , Volume 98 , 2004 , pp. 189 - 192
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 2004

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References

1 Truth and Reconciliation Commission Act 2000, Supplement to the 131 Sierra Leone Gazette, No. 9.

2 For discussion of the legal status of the agreement, see Prosecutor v. Kallon et al., Case Nos. SCSL-2004-15 and 16-AR72(E), Decision on Challenge to Jurisdiction (Lomé Accord Amnesty) (Mar. 13, 2004).

3 Peace Agreement Between the Government of Sierra Leone and the Revolutionary United Front of Sierra Leone, Lomé, Togo (July 7, 1999), art. DC.

4 Seventh Report of the Secretary-General on the United Nations Observer Mission in Sierra Leone, UN Doc. S/1999/836(July 30, 1999).

5 Bennett, Richard, The Evolution of the Sierra Leone Truth and Reconciliation Commission, in Unamsil, Truth and Reconciliation in Sierra Leone 37–51 (2001)Google Scholar.

6 Truth and Reconciliation Commission Act 2000, available at <http//:www.sierra-leone.org/trcact2000.html>

7 UN Doc. S/RES/2000/1315. On the establishment of the Court, see Prosecutor v. Kallon et al., supra note 2, Decision on Constitutionality and Lack of Jurisdiction (Mar. 13, 2004).

8 Letter dated January 12, 2001 from the Secretary-General to the President of the Security Council, UN Doc. S/2001/40, para. 9.

9 Eleventh Report of the Secretary-General on the United Nations Mission in Sierra Leone, UN Doc. S/2001/857 (Sept. 7, 2001), para. 44.

10 Human Rights Watch Policy Paper on the Interrelationship Between the Sierra Leone Special Court and Truth and Reconciliation Commission (April 18, 2002), at 2. See also Letter from PRIDE to ICTJ, quoted in Marieke Wierda et al., Exploring the Relationship Between the Special Court and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Sierra Leone, International Center for Transitional Justice paper (June 24, 2002), at 8.

11 “ Prosecutor v. Norman (Case No. SCSL-2003-08-PT), Decision on Appeal by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission for Sierra Leone (‘TRC’ or ‘The Commission’) and Chief Samuel Hinga Norman JP Against the Decision of His Lordship, Mr Justice Bankole Thompson, Delivered on October 30, 2003 to Deny the TRC ‘s Request to Hold a Public Hearing with Chief Samuel Hinga Norman JP, Nov. 28, 2003.