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/ 9 October 2006

Peace versus justice

As peace talks between the Ugandan government and the rebel Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) continue, a debate is raging over whether those who have committed war crimes should be allowed to escape international justice for the sake of peace. The LRA is insisting as its condition for full peace talks that the International Criminal Court, in The Hague, drop arrest warrants against its leaders on 33 charges of crimes against humanity and war crimes.