Source: Reuters - AlertNet
Country: Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, World
By Thomas Escritt
THE HAGUE, Sept 20 (Reuters) - After the collapse of half a dozen cases over atrocities, International Criminal Court prosecutors are seeking to hire forensic experts to reduce their reliance on witness testimony.
Although not the only factor in the court's failure to secure more than one conviction in a decade, the disappearance of witnesses, doubts over their accounts and withdrawals of their statements have undermined prosecutions over suspected crimes against humanity in Kenya, Sudan, Congo and elsewhere.
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