À lire absolument : cet article du Akhbar explique la démission du président du Tribunal spécial pour le Liban (#TSL). Il s’agirait d’un conflit entre le procureur, Daniel Bellemare, et les juges internationaux.
STL’s Cassese : Resignation Likely Sign of Infighting Not Ill-Health | Al Akhbar English
►http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/stl’s-cassese-resignation-likely-sign-infighting-not-ill-health
In a phone interview with al-Akhbar, a New York based UN official said that Judge Cassese had informed UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon two weeks ago about his intention to resign from his position due to differences between Bellemare and some of the Tribunal’s judges.
According to the source, Cassese also passed on to Ban a complaint that Judge Fransen had filed against the prosecutor. Ban discussed this matter with UN officials in New York. He decided that losing Bellemare or Cassese during “this historical stage of the first tribunal on terrorist crimes” might lead to the erosion of what is left of the Tribunal’s credibility. The UN source says that Ban decided to adopt a temporary compromise. This compromise required Cassese to step down as President of the Tribunal due to ‘health reasons,’ and continue to serve as a judge of the Tribunal’s Appeals Chamber, despite his alleged health issues. On the other hand, Bellemare would stay in his position backed by international support, as today he constitutes the vanguard of ‘the war on terrorism’ by targeting Hezbollah.
L’article énumère ensuite l’invraisemblable série de démissions qui ont frappé l’histoire récente de ce tribunal (démissions dont tu n’as, évidemment, jamais entendu parler) :
In addition to the resignation of the Registrar Robin Vincent, the difficult circumstances Cassese mentioned upon his resignation coincided with the resignation of a large number of the Tribunal staff, notably David Tolbert (September 2009), who resigned a few weeks after he was appointed successor to Vincent. Other resignations followed, such as that of the head of public relations Peter Foster, the prosecutor’s spokesperson Radiya Ashouri (May 2010) and her successor Henrietta Aswad (September 2010).
Furthermore, the director of the Department of Investigation in the prosecutor’s office announced he had no plans to renew his contract, and left the Hague on 28 February 2010. Four months before that (November 2009), Judge Howard Morrison resigned, following the resignation of Tribunal spokesperson Susan Khan a few days before. Fatima al-Issawi, her successor, in turn resigned on 11 December 2010. Resignations are not uncommon in international criminal tribunals, but in the case of the STL, they have been happening at a quick pace and under mysterious circumstances.
