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Selliaha/Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE): The Prosecutor v. Selliaha/Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE)
Judgment given after full argument on both sides, 21 Oct 2011, District Court of The Hague, The Netherlands
Five men, allegedly members of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE, a rebel group in Sri Lanka), were brought before the District Court of the Hague (the Netherlands) on charges of, among others, extortion, money laundering, and raising funds for a terrorist organization. The European Union (EU) placed the LTTE on a list of terrorist organizations in 2006. The present judgment was handed down against one of the suspects, identified only as Selliaha, who acted as the LTTE’s overseas bookkeeper.
The five men, including Selliaha, allegedly extorted millions of Euros through blackmails and threats in order to fund the LTTE in Sri Lanka.
The District Court found Selliaha guilty of invlovement with a criminal organization, but not of supporting terrorism. Furthermore, the District Court considered that the conflict in Sri Lanka amounts to a non-international armed conflict, but dismissed a large number of charges on the basis that the Netherlands was not party to the conflict. Moreover, the District Court ruled that the EU’s classification of the LTTE as a banned organization, made the fundraising operations unlawful in the Netherlands.
The District Court acquitted Selliaha of extortion but convicted him of threatening prospective donators. Selliaha was sentenced to 6 years of imprisonment, the longest sentence of the five accused.
Ríos Montt: Rigoberta Menchu et al. v Ríos Montt et al.
Summary of Situation and Cases, 20 May 2013, Constitutional Court of Guatemala, Tribunal Primero A, Guatemala
General Efraín Ríos Montt was a former head of state of Guatemala.
In 2007, Montt was elected for a seat in the Congress. In 2012, his term of office as a member of the Congress came to an end. As a result, his immunity (heads of states are given protection from being suit without their consent) was lifted. Complaints were brought against Ríos Montt for crimes that resulted in the deaths of 1,771 indigenous Ixil people during his 17-month rule.
On 10 May 2013, Ríos Montt was found guilty of crimes committed against the indigenous Mayan population between 1960 and 1996 and was sentenced to 50 years in prison. On 20 May 2013, Guatemala’s Constitutional Court annulled the decision and set back the trial to the proceedings of 19 April 2013.
Ríos Montt is the first former head of state to be convicted of genocide by a court in his own country.
Solidarité avec les victimes de la guerre contre l'Irak v. Bush et al.: Association Solidarité avec les Victimes de la Guerre contre I'Irak v. George W. Bush et. al
Ordonnance de refus de donner suite, 8 May 2003, Ministère Public de la Confédération, Switzerland
Bush et al.: General Prosecutor v. Bush et al.
Décision en dessaisissement de la juridiction belge, 24 Sep 2003, The Court of Cassation, Belgium
Brown et al. v. Rwanda: Vincent Brown aka Vincent Bajinja, Charles Munyaneza, Emmanuel Nteziryayo and Celestin Ugirashebuja v. The Government of Rwanda and The Secretary of State for the Home Department
Judgment (Appeal against extradition), 8 Apr 2009, High Court of Justice, Divisional Court, Great Britain (UK)
Vincent Brown aka Vincent Bajinya and three other men claimed asylum in the United Kingdom after the genocide in Rwanda in 1994. In 2006, Rwanda requested extradition of the four men for their alleged involvement in the genocide. On 28 December 2006, the four suspects were arrested in the United Kingdom.
The men appealed their extradition before the High Court. The judges determined that there is a real risk that the four men would not be granted a fair trial in Rwanda, and determined that the suspects could not be extradited to Rwanda.
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