[ Etude critique du système congolais de répression des crimes internationaux : considérations sur les crimes commis par les rebelles ougandais de la LRA ]
Volume 32, Issue 1, August 2017, Pages 5–17
Désiré GININGAKPIO MIUDIPALO1
1 Chef de Travaux à la Faculté de Droit de l’Université de Kisangani, RD Congo
Original language: French
Copyright © 2017 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
The history of the Democratic Republic of Congo has been marked the last two decades by a multiplicity of armed conflicts of which that of Lord’s Resistance Army of Joseph KONY. During these armed conflicts, massive violations of Human Rights and International Humanitarian Right have been perpetrated (war crimes, crime against humanity, etc.). The judiciary answer to this great number of crimes has always left the public on its lust (thirst) at the extent to create disillusionment face to the justice among population. The Congolese judiciary system of repression presents because of this fact many weaknesses due to the absence of a real independence of judges, to the subjugation of judiciary power by executive power, to a few number of magistrates, to international relationships weight in the instructions of certain affairs, to the non-execution of sentence condemning to damages and to the lowness of judiciary power budget, etc. This state of things has led to a malfunction of justice and needs a reframing even a reform of Congolese judiciary system and needs to rethink criminal cooperation between states affected by the rebellion of Lord’s Resistance Army in order to insure a fair trial to victims and their butchers and to make (render) efficient the struggle against impunity of international crimes in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Author Keywords: Armed conflict, international crimes, repression, Lord’s Resistance Army, judicial system, criminal cooperation.
Volume 32, Issue 1, August 2017, Pages 5–17
Désiré GININGAKPIO MIUDIPALO1
1 Chef de Travaux à la Faculté de Droit de l’Université de Kisangani, RD Congo
Original language: French
Copyright © 2017 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Abstract
The history of the Democratic Republic of Congo has been marked the last two decades by a multiplicity of armed conflicts of which that of Lord’s Resistance Army of Joseph KONY. During these armed conflicts, massive violations of Human Rights and International Humanitarian Right have been perpetrated (war crimes, crime against humanity, etc.). The judiciary answer to this great number of crimes has always left the public on its lust (thirst) at the extent to create disillusionment face to the justice among population. The Congolese judiciary system of repression presents because of this fact many weaknesses due to the absence of a real independence of judges, to the subjugation of judiciary power by executive power, to a few number of magistrates, to international relationships weight in the instructions of certain affairs, to the non-execution of sentence condemning to damages and to the lowness of judiciary power budget, etc. This state of things has led to a malfunction of justice and needs a reframing even a reform of Congolese judiciary system and needs to rethink criminal cooperation between states affected by the rebellion of Lord’s Resistance Army in order to insure a fair trial to victims and their butchers and to make (render) efficient the struggle against impunity of international crimes in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Author Keywords: Armed conflict, international crimes, repression, Lord’s Resistance Army, judicial system, criminal cooperation.
Abstract: (french)
L’histoire de la République démocratique du Congo a été marquée durant les deux dernières décennies par une multiplicité des conflits armés dont celui de l’Armée de résistance du Seigneur de Joseph KONY. Durant ces conflits armés, des violations massives de droits de l’homme et du droit international humanitaire ont été perpétrées (crimes de guerre, crimes conte l’humanité, etc.). La réponse judiciaire à ce grand nombre de crimes a souvent laissé l’opinion publique sur sa soif de justice au point de créer un désenchantement vis-à-vis de la justice dans le chef de la population. Le système judiciaire congolais de répression de crimes internationaux présente de ce fait plusieurs faiblesses liées entre autres à l’absence d’indépendance réelle des juges, à l’inféodation du pouvoir judiciaire au pouvoir exécutif, au faible effectif des magistrats, au poids des relations internationales dans l’instruction de certaines affaires, à l’inexécution de jugement condamnant aux dommages et intérêts et à la modicité du budget du pouvoir judiciaire, etc. Cet état de choses a entraîné un dysfonctionnement de la justice et appelle un recadrage voire une reforme du système judiciaire congolais en vue d’assurer aux victimes et à leurs bourreaux un procès équitable et rendre effective la lutte contre l’impunité de crimes internationaux en République démocratique du Congo.
Author Keywords: conflit armé, crimes internationaux, répression, armé de résistance du Seigneur, système judiciaire, coopération pénale.
How to Cite this Article
Désiré GININGAKPIO MIUDIPALO, “Critical study of Congolese system of repression of international crimes : considerations on crimes committed by ugandan rebels of L.R.A. (Lord’s Resistance Army),” International Journal of Innovation and Scientific Research, vol. 32, no. 1, pp. 5–17, August 2017.
