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Supporting Victims at Trial

This chapter examines how victim representation worked at the Extraordinary African Chambers (EAC) and how it differed from other international tribunals such as the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC). The ECCC and the EAC are the only ad hoc tribunals that have allowed victims participation. The reason for this is that both hybrid tribunals are rooted in the French civil law system, which awards civil party status to the victims. This status recognizes victims as a legal party to the proceedings. Overall, in the Hissène Habré case, the different roles amongst the national and international lawyers representing the victims were better defined than in the first trial in front of the ECCC. Similarly, the collaboration between the civil parties' lawyers and the Prosecution was better organized in the Habré trial than in front of the ECCC.