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To date, the Government has been unable to bring to justice any of the perpetrators of the numerous crimes committed.

[...] these fugitives can be swiftly arrested.

Although the Prosecutor General advises that the Lebanese authorities have been diligently attempting to apprehend the accused, to date their efforts have been unsuccessful.

The revised estimated completion dates are attributable to the late arrests of fugitives, whose trials could have been joined with those of other accused with the same crime base had they been apprehended earlier; the high rate of staff attrition; the discovery of important evidence while proceedings were ongoing; detainee health issues and other factors outside the control of the Tribunal emanating from the complexity of the proceedings.

Ÿ Request the cooperation of States and United Nations peacekeeping and other relevant missions authorized by the Security Council in the apprehension and surrender of alleged perpetrators of genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes or other serious violations of human rights law.

Amnesty International called on Chad to implement the recommendations of the national commission of enquiry into the events of N’Djamena in 2008 and to bring to justice those suspected of serious human rights violations; to cease the forced eviction of people in N’Djamena and to conduct a full and impartial enquiry into the role of police and the military in such evictions; to investigate and disclose the whereabouts of victims of enforced disappearance; to end the practice of secret detention and to make public the name and location of all detention facilities; to refrain from harassing human rights defenders and journalists and to repeal the provisions of ordinance No. 5 of 20 February 2008; and to improve measures to protect women and girls in internally displaced person and refugee camps in eastern Chad.

However, intensified effort is still required, especially in securing the arrest of the accused.

[...] [...] those who are in the State illegally.

[...] the efforts of the Democratic Republic of the Congo to cooperate in arresting the 11 ICTR fugitives who are still at large, we encourage the Congolese Government and the countries of the Great Lakes region to cooperate fully in arresting the fugitives.

It is regrettable that two suspects indicted by the ICTY, Ratko Mladić and Goran Hadžić, and 11 under indictment by the ICTR, including Felicien Kabuga, are still to be apprehended.

Recent arrests have made it possible to send an important message to all of those who today still try to come to power - or stay in power - by ordering and planning attacks against civilians, to all those who, when faced with an international criminal justice arrest warrant for war crimes, crimes against humanity or the crime of genocide, think that they can count on weariness or inaction on the part of the Council.

For that reason, we urge for the execution of the arrest warrants that were issued by the International Criminal Court for the three leaders of the Lord’s Resistance Army who have been charged with, among others things, war crimes and crimes against humanity.

We also call for harmonization between domestic and international law in combating piracy so that countries of the region can capture pirates and armed bandits, bring them to justice and imprison the guilty.