“If nothing is done by December, international jurisdictions will be seized”. The warning is issued by the President of Amnesty International Senegal Section, Me Amadou Diallo, on the series of dramas of recent demonstrations. By Dakar Matin
As for the referral to international institutions, the lawyer wants to be very clear: “Everything will depend on the attitude of the State of Senegal, the Senegalese courts in relation to the issue. If nothing is done by December, international jurisdictions will be seized. The issue of the ICC (International Criminal Court) has not been raised much, but it is also being considered. But it depends on how the state reacts.”
For Senegalese civil society, there is no question that these deaths (11 according to the Movement for the Defense of Democracy, M2D) are forgotten and that the culprits remain unpunished. “We are counting the dead because we want to go beyond what people are saying, we cannot rely on that, not to make a mistake. It is a tedious job because there are wounded and dead, and there are many,” pleaded the black dress. Not without regretting that the attitude of the parents of the victims who, he said, interrogated by the newspaper Les Echos,” bury their death very quickly without autopsy. And it weakens the case.”
Source : Dakar Matin
