BRIDGING GAPS OF ACCOUNTABILITY FOR IMPUNITY IN INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL JUSTICE THROUGH HYBRID COURTS: AN EXAMINATION OF THE INFLUENCE OF THE ROME STATUTE'S COMPLEMENTARITY PRINCIPLE IN LIGHT OF THE ORGANIC LAW FOR THE CREATION AND ESTABLISHMENT OF THE SPECIAL CRIMINAL COURT IN THE CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC
The Special Criminal Court in the Central African Republic becomes the first hybrid or internationalised criminal tribunal to be created since the coming into existence of the International Criminal Court in 2002. Born out of the realisation that the Central African Republic was a phantom State without a properly functioning national criminal justice system with no capacity to bring justice and ac