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6 SOAS L.J. 17 (2019)

handle is hein.journals/soas6 and id is 1 raw text is: Beyond the Failure of Justice: Lebanon's General Amnesty Law of 1991 and Access to Redress for Victims of the 1975-1990 Civil War Sandra Geahchan This article examines the elements of the general amnesty law of 1991 promulgated in Lebanon a year after the end of the civil war that extended from 1975 to 1990. Through analysis of the provisions and the language, it finds that the law was drafted exclusively for the benefit of the new political elite, former war belligeren ts, in tegrated into the political sphere through the negotiation of the Ta'if agreement at the end of the war. The paper investigates the legal avenues for overturning the amnesty law in a comparative analysis with Latin American countries in an effort to promote accountability. After finding that legal accountability is unlikely to be reached, the paper looks at the legacy of the amnesty law in terms of truth and reparations for victims of the war. It finds that in some contexts, recognition of a crime has more weight that retribution, to ensure a legacy of remembrance.

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