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International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) - Coggle Diagram
International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR)
Establishment
April 1994- Un security council called for the creation of a body to investigate human rights violations
November- ICTR created though resolution 995
Modelled on tribunal created for Yugoslavia
Chief prosecutor- Richard Goldstone (South Africa)
1995- seat of the tribunal was in Arusha Tanzania
Problems
The Sheer number of those involved in the genocide
Estimated that there are 150,000 perpetrators, most haven't faced the criminal justice system
Lack of Funding and Well trained staff
1998- only had 50 investigators compared to Nuremberg's 2000
Slowed down their work
Formal proceedings and first indictments against eight people took place end of 1995
end of 1998, only 28 indictments issued and 7 convicted
Relationship with the Rwandan Government
Government was skeptical of the ICTR and voted against the resolution that was made to create it
Skeptics were reinforced due to the ICTR slow pace of delivering justice up 1998
Achievements
First man to plead guilty to charges of genocide - Rwandan Prime minister Jean Kambanda
The First conviction 1998- Jean Paul Akayesu and Mayor of Tabu stood trial for 15 counts of genocide, crimes against humanity and rape
Pauline Nyiramusuhuko, first woman to be convicted of genocide by the ICTR
Head of RTLM and editor in chief of Kangura, Ferdinand Haman and Hassan Ngeze charged with incitment to genocide