Taylor tribunal och regeringens Afrikapolitik

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Det finns för mycket som sker och skett i det tysta, inte bara hos SIDA och riksdagens Afrikagrupp, utan också utrikespolitiskt. Lägg till mängder efterspel..

Ett exempel är den s k Crane-syndromen (jag kallar det syndrom, det får jag stå för):

At Crane's suggestion, Scharf began to send students to serve as interns at the Tribunal. Because the Tribunal wanted them to spend at least six months in Freetown, Scharf had to convince his faculty colleagues to approve a novel "International Tribunal Externship Program" so that his students could get a semester's worth of credits for the experience. Case was the first law school in the world to establish such a program, and more Case students have interned at the Tribunal than students from any other law school.

Scoring a major coup, a Case alumna is now part of the Taylor prosecution team.

After graduating from Case Western Reserve University School of Law in May 2006, Ruth Mary Hackler joined the Sierra Leone Tribunal as an intern. She was assigned to organize the documents and exhibits for the Taylor trial. Following her internship, Hackler was invited to be one of four international prosecutors trying the case.

Crane and his colleagues in Freetown relied on the Case interns and the students enrolled in the Case War Crimes Research Lab to write lengthy research memoranda on the most difficult legal issues facing the Tribunal. Since then, the Case War Crimes Research Office has produced more than 30 memoranda for the Tribunal, including one that Crane has said "was absolutely critical to proving that the former Liberian president was not protected by the doctrine of Head of State Immunity."

(fortsättningen följer)