Tachiona v. Mugabe

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• “[T]he Executive Branch’s role in determinations of head-of-state immunity was not affected by the passage of the FSIA.”
• “[T]he Executive Branch’s role in determinations of head-of-state immunity was not affected by the passage of the FSIA.”
• “With a legislative record devoid of any explicit contrary expression, a deliberate purpose to depart from generally prevalent international customs and practices as regards immunity for heads-of-state should not be ascribed to Congress.”
• “[C]ourts uniformly have accepted the claim [of immunity] as to heads-of-state and heads-of-government.”
• “[I]t ... would be an overstatement to say that Congress could have envisioned legislating to address a situation whose inherent problems, complexities and exact dimensions were not known or fully comprehended at the time.”
• “the ordeals of torture, extrajudicial killings and other atrocities which Plaintiffs assert characterized the campaign of lawlessness and terror ZANU-PF inflicted upon them fall within the ... violations of international law cognizable under the ATCA”

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