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Title: | Serious human rights violations in Zimbabwe: of international crimes, immunities, and the possibility of prosecutions |
Authors: | Du Plessis, Max Coutsoudis, Andreas |
Year: | 2005 |
Periodical: | South African Journal on Human Rights |
Volume: | 21 |
Issue: | 3 |
Pages: | 337-369 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Zimbabwe |
Subjects: | offences against human rights international criminal law |
External link: | https://doi.org/10.1080/19962126.2005.11865139 |
Abstract: | From the viewpoint of international criminal law, the serious human rights abuses perpetrated in Zimbabwe have implications for the perpetrators. Drawing on the jurisprudence of international criminal tribunals and the text of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, these implications are discussed. Two important international law doctrines are of relevance to any prosecution attempt in relation to Zimbabwe's leaders: the doctrine of responsibility and superior orders, and the controversial question of immunity. Possible avenues for prosecution of Zimbabweans implicated in international crimes include actions before foreign municipal courts and actions by means of the world's first permanent international criminal tribunal, the International Criminal Court. Special consideration is given to a possible prosecution under South Africa's Implementation of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court Act of 2002. Notes, ref., sum. [Journal abstract] |