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The International Criminal Court and National Amnesty Laws

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2017

Mahnoush H. Arsanjani
Mahnoush H. Arsanjani*
Affiliation:
Office of Legal Affairs, United Nations Secretariat
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Violence
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Proceedings of the ASIL Annual Meeting , Volume 93 , 1999 , pp. 65 - 68
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 1999

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References

1 See Black’s Law Dictionary, fourth edition and seventh edition.

2 The commentary on that paragraph states that amnesty is a “matter within the competence of the authorities,” meaning here national authorities.

3 Letter from the Icrc, addressed to the author (Mar. 24, 1999) (on file with author).

4 Inter-Am. C.H.R. (Ser. C) No.4, judgment of July 29, 1988, Oea/ser. L./V.rtH.19, doc. 13 (1988).

5 Request for Advisory Opinion OC-13 (Argentina and Uruguay), lnter-Am. C.H.R. (1992) cases No. 9780 and 9850. For Court’s Advisory Opinion, see Inter-Am. C.H.R. (Advisory Opinion OC-13/93), para. 57, July 16, 1993.

6 See, e.g., Roht-Arriaza, Naomi & Gibson, Lauren, The Developing Jurisprudence of Amnesty, 20 Hum. Rts. Q., 843, 861-862CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

7 See article 53, paragraph 2(2) of the Statute.

8 See Cnn Interactive, March 18, 1999, http://www.cnn.com/world/Africa/99 . . . zania-RwandaCrimes-3.ap/index.html; and Bbc online Network, http://news2.thod.bbc.co.uk/hi/eng ... Id/arica/newside.