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A Break With The Past Or Justice In Pieces: Divergent Paths On The Question Of Amnesty In Argentina And Colombia, Douglas Jacobson Sep 2014

A Break With The Past Or Justice In Pieces: Divergent Paths On The Question Of Amnesty In Argentina And Colombia, Douglas Jacobson

Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law

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Amnesty Or Accountability: The Fate Of High-Ranking Child Soldiers In Uganda's Lord's Resistance Army, Stella Yarbrough Jan 2014

Amnesty Or Accountability: The Fate Of High-Ranking Child Soldiers In Uganda's Lord's Resistance Army, Stella Yarbrough

Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law

In May 2013, Uganda surprisingly resurrected its amnesty provision for two more years after having let it lapse only a year earlier. Uganda's vacillation likely represents its competing desires to grant amnesty to low-level actors in the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) and to end impunity for decades of gross human rights violations in accordance with international criminal law. However, instead of crafting an amnesty provision that would satisfy both of these needs, Uganda reinstated the same "blanket" amnesty, or all-inclusive pardon, found in the Amnesty Act of Uganda (2000) (Act). As a result, high-level LRA actors like Thomas Kwoyelo and …