Veerle Opgenhaffen

Veerle Opgenhaffen is program assistant in the Middle East and North Africa Program at the International Center for Transitional Justice.

Saddams trial: the needs of justice

After months of speculation, the long-awaited trial of Saddam Hussein and his close associates is finally underway in Baghdad today, 19 October 2005, with the ex-dictator already pleading “not guilty”

By Veerle Opgenhaffen and Hanny Megally

/ 18 Oct 2005

Algerias past needs opening, not closing

Algerias dirty war of the 1990s reads in many ways like a description of Latin American politics in the 1970s: a fledgling democracy is overturned by a military dictatorship,

By Veerle Opgenhaffen and Hanny Megally

/ 27 Sep 2005

Veerle Opgenhaffen

Saddam&#146;s trial: the needs of justice

Algeria&#146;s past needs opening, not closing

Saddams trial: the needs of justice

Algerias past needs opening, not closing