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By Chief Charles A. Taku
The persistent call by the Secretary-General of the United Nations and significant peace advocates, among them, Nobel Peace prize laureates for a cease-fire in the ongoing war of attrition and genocide in the Southern Cameroons, to allow peace efforts to be explored and access to victims in dire need of humanitarian assistance during the covic-19 pandemic has been ignored by the Government of Cameroun. What brazen insensitivity and impunity!
It is left t...
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December 15, 2014
By Chief Taku
A major contribution of Professor Ali Mazrui was to reawaken and affirm the humanity of the black race and the underlying liberating values that sustain this reality. An enduring effect of centuries of crimes that were perpetrated against the black race from the slave trade, to the “Berlin Baza...
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By Dr Bate Besong
In our ‘White Collar Delinquent’s Democracy’
Where the monopoly of power is
the birthright of those
who get it by crook
and the state apparatus is
and instrument of personal vendetta;
elections are won
under the ogogoro of
Monsieur Chirac’s distillery
Many southern Cameroonians have b...
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UMASKING ANOTHER INTERNATIONAL CONSPIRACY: HAIL THE RULE OF LAW.
BY Chief Charles A. Taku
The judgment of the Nigeria Federal High Court in Abuja on March 1, 2019, declaring illegal and unconstitutional, the abduction and deportation to Cameroun of the President of the Interim Government of the Southern Cameroons/Ambazonia Sisiku Ayuk Tabe, members of the Interim Government and several Southern Cameroons refugees carries significant symbolic weight.
The judgme...
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U.N. Doc. CCPR/C/96/D/1397/2005
Communication No. 1397/2005
22 July 2009
HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE
Ninety-sixth session
13 - 31 July 2009
PIERRE DÉSIRÉ ENGO
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By Chief Charles A. Taku
Introduction
Excellencies members of Government and the peoples’ representatives of the Republic of Liberia, Excellencies Ambassadors and Heads of diplomatic missions and International Organisations, the Hon President and members of the Governing Council of the African Bar Association, the Honourable President of the African Bar Association and mem...
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Speaking Points for Video Address to NCBL CLE Program on Representing Defendants before International Tribunals
• Hello and greetings from The Hague, in the Netherlands. I am Chief Charles Achaleke Taku, President of the International Criminal Court Bar Association. It is my great pleasure to be able to address you today as part of this important program on the topic...
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Interview Summary
Charles Taku discusses the failure of the ICTR to prosecute RPF members. He refers to a form of
‘judicial genocide’ through which Hutu victims are denied justice and the Tribunal perpetuates
violence through impunity. He notes that the...
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Fidel Castro: Africa has lost a /friend
November 26, 2016
by Chief Charles Taku
Fidel Castro will go down in history as a revolutionary leader who strongly supported the liberation struggle in Africa. The courage with which he withstood and confronted years of intimidation and threats from the gatekeepers of the “might is right” ideology, and on his own terms, insp...
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Charles A. Taku
Lead Defence Counsel UNICTR, SCSL & ICC
The Marginalized Intruder: Defence Perspectives on Progressive Development of International Justice
Almost 70 years after the Nuremberg trials, the defence in international criminal courts is still treated as a marginalized intruder by the systemic and structural relations within international justice mechanisms.
With the exc...
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