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Timbuktu breakthrough for cultural justice

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Published on: 07 October 2016
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Public Law analysis: Jihadi Ahmad Al Faqi Al Mahdi has become the first person to plead guilty before the International Criminal Court (ICC), admitting to war crimes charges in relation to the destruction of the world heritage sites at Timbuktu. Wayne Jordash and Kateryn Busol of London’s Doughty Street Chambers discuss whether the destruction of buildings and monuments constitutes a war crime and the approach the ICC took in the case.

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