Roadmap on advocacy strategy to prosecute Chiquita’s atrocity crimes

This policy paper draws up a roadmap to conduct strategic advocacy aiming to engage partners from the academic and public interest field, as well as the International Criminal Court (ICC) to investigate, prosecute and eventually convict corporate executives of Chiquita Brands International who indirectly perpetrated crimes against humanity in Colombia and remain at large. We conclude that the Prosecutor of the ICC should open an investigation on the foreign corporate executives who indirectly perpetrated crimes and fueled the conflict in Colombia but cannot genuinely be tried by the domestic transitional justice currently under implementation and negotiation in Colombia. Our idea is to include corporate executives in the concept of most responsible perpetrators of atrocity crimes, thereby empowering victims to pursue justice not only against direct perpetrators but especially against those who knowingly sponsored and represented a necessary condition of the crimes.