Africa-Press – South-Sudan. The Minister of Justice and Constitutional Affairs, Ruben Madol, has pledged to address the challenges facing the country’s justice system, among them extrajudicial killings.
Madol made this commitment after meeting with the United Kingdom Ambassador to South Sudan, Guy Warrington, yesterday, where the duo also discussed the implementation of the peace agreement and transitional justice in South Sudan.
Addressing the press after the meeting on Wednesday, the deputy minister of justice and constitutional affairs, Joseph Malek, said the meeting discussed the progress in the peace implementation, especially Chapter 5 of the agreement.
“We have discussed the issues hindering transitional justice, the way forwards for the implementation of the peace agreement in South Sudan, and electoral processes,” he said.
“The ministry is ready to address the judiciary issues since there are a lot of issues related to human rights violations and extrajudicial killings in the country,” he said.
Malek said the government was ready to implement all the provisions of the peace agreement, including the formation of the Commission of Truth, Healing, and Reconciliation and others, within the time frame.
He stated that the issues related to transitional justice in the country are the responsibility of the ministry of justice, and they are planning to conduct conferences related to transitional justice.
Mr. Warrington said they discussed the Transitional Justice Conference, which needs to be conducted as a positive way of delivering justice to the people of South Sudan.
Also, he stressed the need to pass the election bill and progress in constitutional reforms.
Warrington assured South Sudan of the United Kingdom government’s readiness to stand with the people.
“We want everything in the agreement to be implemented within the time frame set up on the roadmap, and we want to encourage everyone to do what they can to make it happen,” he said.
Chapter 5 of the peace agreement talks about the implementation of transitional justice, in particular truth-seeking, reconciliation, healing, reparations, and accountability, using a range of interlinked mechanisms.
The agreement also provides for the establishment of a hybrid court to hold perpetrators of the conflict to account by bringing South Sudanese and other African experts together to try the most serious crimes.
Source: The City Review
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