Call to Scrap War Court by South Sudan Leaders Spurs Criticism
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South Sudanese leaders said plans for an African court to try people for atrocities committed in the nation’s civil war should be scrapped, a suggestion Human Rights Watch called an attempt to escape justice.
President Salva Kiir and his deputy, former rebel leader Riek Machar, said in a New York Times column on Tuesday that the court, stipulated by an August peace agreement, would threaten that fragile pact. A truth and reconciliation commission would be sufficient, they wrote.