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- Title: Transcript: Analysis of the Dujail Trial (Symposium: "Lessons from the Saddam Trial")
- Author : Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law
- Release Date : January 01, 2007
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 262 KB
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MS. WIERDA: Our task here today is to look beyond the antics of the Dujail trial--which are well known and described in the title of this panel--and to ask ourselves some detailed questions about the trial. We must scrutinize the justice delivered by the Iraqi High Tribunal and ask whether Iraqi people are receiving the quality of justice they deserve. The challenge is to examine the trial in a way that looks at these issues objectively and from a technical rather than purely political viewpoint. The involvement of the International Center for Transitional Justice in monitoring the trial has been extensive. My colleague, Miranda Sissons, attended numerous sessions on four separate missions to Iraq, and our Iraqi consultant attended most of the remainder. We were present for eighty-five percent of all the sessions and monitored the trial in its original language, Arabic. Prior to the trial, in 2003 we had conducted a population survey in Iraq of public expectations in regard to justice for past crimes. (1) Furthermore, an important part of our work has been to dialogue directly with the Iraqi participants in the trial. The issues that we are raising at this conference have been discussed directly and repeatedly with the Iraqi High Tribunal. Nothing that we say here would surprise them. We are grateful for the ability to have frank exchanges with them, and indeed we admire the courage of those involved in the trials.