This is good news for Kotor Hassan and his well
wishers. The only losers are the Gambian Judiciary, a
year ago, this man was sacked from his job as Justice
of the Supreme Court of The Gambia.

Sanusi


 --- Emmanuel NDow <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >
This is indeed good news, Congrats "Sass" I am
> particularly gratified not only is Hassan a gambian,
> he was my classmate @ Saints.Habib this should be
> celebrated give me a buzz.
> God Bless
> -------Original Message-------
> From: Momodou Camara <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: 08/29/03 09:43 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: FWD:New Rwanda prosecutor named
>
> >
> > New Rwanda prosecutor named
>
> A Gambian judge is to be nominated by UN Secretary
> General Kofi Annan as
> the new chief prosecutor for the Rwanda genocide
> court.
> UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan announced Hassan
> Jallow, 52, a former
> Gambian Supreme Court judge and solicitor general,
> as his choice, just
> hours after the Security Council voted to remove
> Carla Del Ponte from the
> role.
>
> She had been chief prosecutor for both the Balkans
> war crimes tribunal and
> the Rwanda court for four years, but the council
> decided to split the two
> posts, which they considered too much work for one
> person.
>
>
> The tribunal, based in Arusha in northern Tanzania,
> was set up in 1995 to
> investigate the massacre of some 800,000 ethnic
> Tutsis and moderate Hutus
> by Hutu extremists in 1994.
> Despite a large budget, 16 judges and 800 members of
> staff, only eight
> people have been convicted so far of
> genocide-related crimes, with one
> person acquitted.
>
> Ms Del Ponte will retain her Balkans position when
> her initial term of
> office expires on 14 September.
>
> The new prosecutor, who will take charge of cases
> stemming from the 1994
> Rwanda genocide, is currently an appeals judge for
> the UN-backed court
> trying war crimes in Sierra Leone.
>
> He has also served as a judge on the Balkans
> tribunal.
>
>
> Mismanagement claims
>
> Ms Del Ponte, the former Swiss attorney general, had
> argued against the
> split, complaining to the Security Council that she
> was a victim of undue
> political pressure from Rwanda, and saying that
> international justice
> could
> be damaged if her duties were shifted.
>
> Ms Del Ponte accused the current government of
> seeking her removal after
> she tried also to investigate claims that members of
> the Tutsi-dominated
> army killed up to 30,000 Hutus, as it took control
> of Rwanda in the wake
> of
> the genocide.
>
>
> GENOCIDE IN RWANDA
>
>
> The Rwandan Government has lobbied hard to have its
> own prosecutor, but
> insists it is not responsible for Ms Del Ponte's
> removal.
>
> Rwandans have long argued the International Criminal
> Tribunal in Arusha
> has
> been plagued by mismanagement and a lack of
> attention from successive
> prosecutors.
>
> Gerald Gahima, Rwanda's Prosecutor General, said
> people took "strong
> exception" to the fact that the investigation of
> almost one million deaths
> has been made a "part-time job of a prosecutor based
> on another
> continent".
>
> Mr Annan himself recommended that the jobs be
> separated.
>
> The UN resolution, sponsored by the United States,
> which the council voted
> unanimously to support, said the council was
> convinced that the
> tribunals "can most efficiently and expeditiously
> meet their respective
> responsibilities if each has its own prosecutor".
>
> The new resolution also sets out the timetable for
> completing the work of
> both the Rwandan and Balkans tribunals by 2010.
>
> It urges both tribunals to focus on rounding up and
> prosecuting leaders
> and
> allowing cases involving lower ranking suspects to
> be transferred to
> national courts instead.
>
>
> Story from BBC NEWS:
>
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/africa/3190833.stm
>
> Published: 2003/08/29 09:14:45 GMT
>
>
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