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Fighting Deforestation in Non-International Armed Conflicts: The Relevance of the Rome Statute for Rosewood Trafficking in Senegal

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Maud Sarliève
Pauline Martini
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Maud Sarliève
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Abstract

This article examines rosewood trafficking in the Casamance region of Senegal to determine whether acts of massive deforestation committed in the context of a non-international armed conflict can be prosecuted before the International Criminal Court (ICC) as war crimes of pillage and destruction of property under Article 8(2)(e)(v) and (xii) of the Rome Statute, respectively. It examines two of the main challenges resulting from the application of these provisions to acts of massive deforestation in the light of the ICC Elements of Crimes. Firstly, the article addresses the delicate issue of the establishment of a nexus between these acts and the related non-international armed conflict. Secondly, it discusses whether natural resources may qualify as ‘property’ for the purpose of Article 8(2)(e)(v) and (xii). It then offers avenues of reflection regarding the determination of ownership of these resources to fulfil the requirements of the Rome Statute.

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DeforestationInternational criminal lawWar crimesPillageDestruction of propertyNatural resources
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Transnational Environmental Law , Volume 11 , Issue 1 , March 2022 , pp. 95 - 117
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Copyright © The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press.

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Footnotes

The original version of this article was presented at the Workshop ‘Climate Litigation in Africa’ organized by the University of Exeter (UK) and the University of the Witwatersrand (South Africa), 25–27 Aug. 2020. The authors warmly thank TEL reviewers, Jennifer Triscone and Martin Evans for their valuable comments and suggestions.

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35 See TRIAL International, n. 11 above, p. 3.

36 The Court convicted two individuals accused of destruction of property (Germain Katanga and Bosco Ntaganda) and two individuals accused of pillage (Germain Katanga and Dominic Ongwen): ICC, Katanga, Judgment pursuant to Article 74 of the Statute, ICC-01/04-01/07, Trial Chamber II, 7 Mar. 2014; ICC, Ntaganda, Judgment, ICC-01/04-02/06, Trial Chamber VI, 8 July 2019 (whose conviction was confirmed on appeal: ICC, Ntaganda, Judgment on the Appeals of Mr Bosco Ntaganda and the Prosecutor against the Decision of Trial Chamber VI of 8 July 2019 entitled ‘Judgment’, ICC-01/04-02/06, A.A2, Appeals Chamber, 30 Mar. 2021; and ICC, Ongwen, Trial Judgment, ICC-02/04-01/15, Trial Chamber IX, 4 Feb. 2021. A recent case brought before the Court will generate more jurisprudence on these crimes; the ICC confirmed charges against Patrice-Édouard Ngaïssona for pillage and destruction of property: ICC, Yekatom and Ngaïssona, Decision on the Confirmation of Charges against Alfred Yekatom and Patrice-Edouard Ngaïssona, ICC-01/14-01/18, Pre-Trial Chamber II, 20 Dec. 2019.

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38 See the phrasing of the chapeau requirement under Art. 8(2)(e): ‘other serious violations of the laws and customs applicable in armed conflicts not of an international character’ (emphasis added).

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46 Ntaganda, Judgment, n. 36 above, para. 698.

47 Ibid.

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51 Ibid.

52 See Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL), Taylor, Judgment, SCSL-03-01-T, Trial Chamber II, 18 May 2012. The SCSL, however, did not deal with the exploitation of Sierra Leone's natural resources in its cases; charges of pillage against the accused were limited to damage to civil properties. The Court therefore never had to make findings on the substantial link between the acts and the armed conflict between Sierra Leone and various armed groups operating on its territory.

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68 Nairobi (Kenya), 27 June 1981, in force 21 Oct. 1986, available at: https://www.achpr.org/legalinstruments/detail?id=49.

69 ACHPR, ‘Principles and Guidelines on the Implementation of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights’, para. 54 (emphasis added). This is in line with the phrasing of Art. 21(1) and (2) of the Banjul Charter.

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73 Ntaganda, n. 36 above, para. 1032.

74 Ibid.

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76 Ntaganda, n. 36 above, para. 1032.

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122 ILC, ‘Summaries of the Work of the International Law Commission’, 11 Dec. 2019, available at: https://legal.un.org/ilc/summaries/8_7.shtml.

123 For a global approach on the topic see C. Stahn, ‘Liberals vs. Romantics: Challenges of An Emerging Corporate International Criminal Law’, 21 Feb. 2018, available at: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3127843. For a Rome Statute-based approach see, inter alia, Clapham, A., ‘The Question of Jurisdiction under International Criminal Law over Legal Persons: Lessons from the Rome Conference on an International Criminal Court’, in Kamminga, M. & Zia-Zarifi, S. (eds), Liability of Multinational Corporations under International Law (Kluwer Law International, 2000), pp. 139–95Google Scholar; Scheffer, D., ‘Corporate Liability under the Rome Statute’ (2016) 57 Harvard International Law JournalGoogle Scholar, online symposium, available at: https://harvardilj.org/2016/07/corporate-liability-under-the-rome-statute; van der Wilt, H., ‘Corporate Criminal Responsibility for International Crimes: Exploring the Possibilities’ (2013) 12(1) Chinese Journal of International Law, pp. 43–77CrossRefGoogle Scholar. For the question of the exploitation of illegal resources in armed conflicts, see Stewart, n. 54 above, pp. 75–82 and Wisner, n. 54 above.

124 See M. Sarliève, ‘Multinationals and Human Rights: Do States Understand the Urgency of a Treaty?’, Fondation Hirondelle, 9 Nov. 2020, available at: https://www.justiceinfo.net/en/justiceinfo-comment-and-debate/opinion/45922-multinationals-human-rights-do-states-understand-urgency-treaty.html.

125 Malabo (Equatorial Guinea), 27 June 2014, not in force, available at: https://au.int/en/treaties/protocol-amendments-protocol-statute-african-court-justice-and-human-rights.

126 Ibid., Annex, Art. 46C.

127 Malabo Protocol, n. 125 above, Annex, Art. 28L bis.

128 See sources at n. 8 above.

129 ICC OTP, ‘Policy Paper on Case Selection and Prioritisation’, 15 Sept. 2016, para. 41, available at: https://www.icc-cpi.int/itemsdocuments/20160915_otp-policy_case-selection_eng.pdf.