Possible Impediments to Justice for Colonial Crimes: A Belgian Perspective

Justice for colonial wrongs is a difficult matter. Collective or individual responsibilities have rarely been established in history. This has been described as an 'accountability gap'. While this gap may partly be due to circumstantial and factual reasons, it is also the result, specifically, of legal impediments that are faced by victims in their quest for justice. Such impediments exist on the plane of international(ized) justice, at the level of former colonies, as well as in the domestic legal order of former colonial states. This practitioner paper takes the latter perspective as a start... Mehr ...