Clause 2 - Request for arrest and surrender
International Criminal Court Bill [Lords]
2:30 pm
Mrs Cheryl Gillan (Chesham and Amersham, Conservative)
I had some difficulty marshalling my papers during this morning's sitting, but perhaps it would help my hon. Friend to know that one of the 15 truth commissions to which I referred in my earlier argument was the Rettig commission—the national commission on truth and reconciliation in Chile—which dealt with 3,428 cases of people who had disappeared or were killed, tortured to death or kidnapped, of which 2,920 were investigated in depth. The commission's work lasted for nine months and covered a period of 16 and a half years. It is important that such commissions are taken into consideration in the light of the effect on that process that may be made possible by future legislation.