id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_dddatdlocnca3prn4cha6i635u Lisa J. Laplante, University of Connecticut-School of Law, Estados Unidos OUTLAWING AMNESTY: THE RETURN OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE IN TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE SCHEMES* 2012 58 .pdf application/pdf 32578 2615 61 even though both fields are a subset of transitional justice in general, the discipline of international criminal law still supports the theory of "qualified amnesties" Barrios Altos arose out of a dispute concerning one amnesty law, promulgated in 1995 by former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori, which extended immunity to all state agents responsible for serious human rights violations during from the IACtHR on the amnesty laws to determine whether its transitional justice experience could include criminal trials. monitoring bodies to find amnesty laws contrary to basic human rights principles.119 Yet, because the IACHR's decisions are not binding, states often responded by either ignoring its recommendation, or providing the classic argument that 116 See Naomi Roht-Arriaza, State Responsibility to Investigate and Prosecute Grave Human Rights Violations in International Law, 78 Cal. L. 225 Id; see also Susana VillarĂ¡n de la Puente, Peru, in Victims Unsilenced: The Inter-American Human Rights System and Transitional Justice in Latin America, supra note 39, at 116 (providing ./cache/work_dddatdlocnca3prn4cha6i635u.pdf ./txt/work_dddatdlocnca3prn4cha6i635u.txt