Canada is rightly seeking accountability for Syrians at the International Court of Justice
Payam Akhavan is a senior fellow at Massey College at the University of Toronto and a former UN prosecutor at The Hague. He is the recipient of the Human Rights Award of the Law Society of Ontario. Alex Neve is a senior fellow at the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs and an adjunct professor of international human rights law at the University of Ottawa.
. This, after a decade-long suspension arising from atrocities committed by Mr. al-Assad’s regime in the Syrian civil war that has claimed the lives of some 300,000 civilians.in the pages of The Globe and Mail, arguing that “the question of accountability remains a vital ingredient of any lasting peace [in Syria].” We noted that “eradicating a culture of impunity” for dictators worldwide was a central challenge.
The bottom line is that there can be no sustainable peace and genuine reconciliation in Syria without accountability for human rights violations and justice for its victims and survivors.
There are important lessons to be learned from the experience of the ad hoc International Criminal Tribunals for the
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