Amnesties and reconciliation Sample Clauses

Amnesties and reconciliation. Amnesties are another mechanism that government leaders in post-conflict countries use for dealing with the legacies of the violent past. In the field of transitional justice, amnesty is the least respected strategy. As seen above, the basic assumptions that are used to argue for various options in the pursuit of justice are that their absence might contribute to the degradation of the victims, or that their attainment can relieve victims, or victimized groups, from the need to take justice into their own hands. Since amnesty generally rules out justice and upholds impunity and silence, it can be concluded that amnesty is a recipe for collapse in post-conflict countries. Amnesty in this context can be defined as a “legal norm which, for an indefinite number of cases, either revokes (or reduces) the lawful punishment of convicted offenders, terminates continuing proceedings or prevents cases coming to court at all” (Xxxxx Xxxxxxxxx xuoted in Xxxxxxx, 2001: 3). This definition suggests that amnesty can be enacted after a case has been judged and the culprits found guilty,45 or that amnesty blocks the justice system from starting a criminal case against alleged law violators. In the former case the correct terminology is mercy, which is “a decision of the executive power to revoke the criminal sanction of a court verdict in a particular case” (Xxxxxxx, 2001: 3). However, in both cases (pre or post-waiver of criminal proceedings) “amnesty presupposes that there is a legal system, which is based on punishment as legal consequence for criminal acts” (Xxxxxxx, 2001: 3). The type of amnesty that thoroughly precludes any form of organized justice from reckoning with past crimes is the most common form of amnesty found in transitional countries. In this case, there is no public attribution of guilt through a valid conviction. Yet even if there is no official and public recognition of culpability, amnesty does not mean that the alleged criminals are innocent; rumours will prevail in society vis-à-vis the acts of certain individuals under the service of their political regimes. The serious problem with this type of amnesty is that only knowing that someone is not innocent is not yet justice, neither rumours serves the purpose of justice. The link between amnesty and reconciliation is a very controversial issue in the international literature on transitional justice. The majority of authors agree that amnesty spoils the process of reconciliation since it denies the rig...
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