RT Article
T1 The Bemba-Banyamulenge case before the ICC: from individual to collective criminal responsibility
JF International journal of transitional justice
VO 7
IS 3
SP 476
OP 496
A1 Ndahinda, Felix Mukwiza
LA English
YR 2013
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1546486569
AB Jean-Pierre Bemba is on trial before the International Criminal Court (ICC) based on the legal theory of command responsibility for crimes allegedly committed by Congolese soldiers deployed in the Central African Republic (CAR) at the request of the country’s President Ange-Félix Patassé during the 2002-2003 conflict. Various ICC actors, including prosecutors, judges, witnesses, defense lawyers and victim representatives, have uncritically adopted the term ‘Banyamulenge,’ ordinarily an ethnonym for an eastern Congolese community, to refer to the purported perpetrators of these crimes. This article digs into the origins of the collective labeling of Bemba’s combatants in the CAR. It also examines the possible impact that negative narratives associated with Banyamulenge in the Bemba case may have on the already explosive identity politics in (eastern) Democratic Republic of Congo.
K1 Internationaler Strafgerichtshof
K1 Menschenrechtsverletzung
K1 Strafverfolgung
K1 Strafverfahren
K1 Kombattant
K1 Tutsi
K1 Politischer Konflikt
K1 Innenpolitik
K1 Demokratische Republik Kongo
K1 Zentralafrikanische Republik
DO 10.1093/ijtj/ijt013