Title: CALLED TO ACCOUNT: HOW AFRICAN GOVERNMENTS INVESTIGATE HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS
Abstract: Journal Article CALLED TO ACCOUNT: HOW AFRICAN GOVERNMENTS INVESTIGATE HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS Get access RICHARD CARVER RICHARD CARVER Richard Carver is Research Director, Africa Watch. This article is a substantially revised version of a paper delivered to the Annual Meeting of the US African Studies Association, Atlanta, November 1989, which also appeared in Third World Legal Studies. The author is grateful to a number of people who helped him prepare this article by providing documents or advice. They include Mike Dottridge and Chris Avery of Amnesty International, Makau Mutua of the Lawyers' Committee for Human Rights, Roberta Cohen from the board of Africa Watch and John Hatchard of the University of Buckingham. He has also benefited from a number of discussions over the past three years with members of Uganda's Commission of Inquiry into Human Rights Violations, especially its chairman, Justice Arthur Oder, and with Augustine Ruzindana, the Inspector-General of Government. Ruzindana also commented in writing on the earlier draft. Needless to say, none of them bears any responsibility for the content of this article. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 89, Issue 356, July 1990, Pages 391–415, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a098305 Published: 01 July 1990
Publication Year: 1990
Publication Date: 1990-07-01
Language: en
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