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  24 judged by ICTR in eight years
When the ICTR condemned Kambanda, it established an international jurisprudence by showing that leaders were responsible for human rights violations committed in the course of exercising their duties.
The ICTR is the first international jurisdiction to pass judgement on the crime of genocide ever since the convention against genocide was adopted in 1948.
The ICTR set another precedence in the Akayesu trial when it concluded that rape, which is a crime against humanity, constituted a genocide when it was committed as part of a systematic and widespread attack against a civilian population because they belonged to a certain ethnic group.
www.ippmedia.com /ipp/guardian/2005/04/11/36842.html   (895 words)

  
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According to her, the fact that France "which is taken in the Rwandan turmoil" is asking for Kagame to be subpoenaed before the ICTR is « reassuring and comforting ».
The ICTR's mandate concerns the genocide, the war crimes and the crimes against humanity committed in 1994.
The lawyers retorted that this attack sparked the genocide and was a « constitutive element » of it.
www.alertnet.org /thenews/fromthefield/218498/11641968574.htm   (817 words)

  
 ICTR Fact Sheet
The purpose of this action is also to contribute to the process of national reconciliation in Rwanda and to the maintenance of peace in the region.
The Office of the Prosecutor is in The Hague, Netherlands, and the Deputy Prosecutor is based in Kigali, Rwanda.
The ICTR has set up the United Nations Detention Facility in the complex of the Arusha prison.
www.un.org /ictr/english/factsheets/ictr.html   (797 words)

  
 ASIL Insights:The ICTR Appeals Chamber Dismisses the Prosecutor’s Appeal to Transfer Michel Bagaragaza for Trial ...
On 30 August 2006, the Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR, or the Tribunal), sitting in The Hague, dismissed an appeal by the ICTR Prosecutor against the 19 May 2006 Decision of Trial Chamber III, which denied a Prosecution motion to transfer the case of The Prosecutor v.
Furthermore, the Prosecution argued that the ICTR judges were aware of the course of action adopted by their colleagues at the ICTY who amended their Rules following the adoption of Resolution 1534.
The judges, however, chose not to change the ICTR Rules, therefore implying their intention that the gravity of the crimes charged and the accused person’s level of responsibility should not be taken into account in determining whether an order for referral to a national court should be made.
www.asil.org /insights/2006/10/insights061003.html   (2175 words)

  
 Eyewitness To Hell
On April 7th this year the ICTR's South African president Navanethem Pillay said she had received a UN memorandum concerning the 1994 'plane crash that killed Habyarimana, and had put it under seal.
Judge Pillay said the document was a 3-page memorandum prepared by former ICTR prosecution investigator Michael Hourigan, "on his own initiative.
Several other ICTR detainees are also demanding that the Tribunal release the documents on the crash andformer mayor of Taba Jeanhis motion on Friday/or open an investigation.
www.emperors-clothes.com /docs/ictr.htm   (802 words)

  
 JURIST - International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda
ICTR seeks return of genocide case to Rwanda court after death penalty abolition
[JURIST] The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) [official website] requested Monday that the case against Fulgence Kayishema [TrialWatch profile], who was indicted in absentia [indictment, PDF] in 2001 for his involvement in the 1994 Rwandan genocide [BBC backgrounder], be moved to....
ICTR genocide trial begins for former top Rwanda official
jurist.law.pitt.edu /currentawareness/ictr.php   (492 words)

  
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Arusha, November 21 2006 (FH) - Following the investigation conducted by Judge Jean-Louis Bruguière, the defence lawyers association (ADAD) at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) asked the Tribunal on Tuesday afternoon for the President of Rwanda Paul Kagame to be prosecuted for war crimes.
Paul Kagame is said to have initiated the attack that led to the death of the President of Rwanda and the President of Burunidi, Juvenal Habyarimana and Cyprien Ntaryamira.
According to the defence attorneys, the ICTR has been gathering evidences pertaining to the Rwandan president's involvement in the attack against the plane since 1997 but these proofs have been denied by Louise Harbour, the prosecutor at the time.
www.alertnet.org /thenews/fromthefield/218498/116420401755.htm   (540 words)

  
 Devereux Institute of Clinical Training & Resources: Institute of Clinical Training & Research (ICTR)
Devereux's Institute of Clinical Training and Research (ICTR) provides a variety of professional services, such as:
Audio: ICTR Director, Paul LeBuffe speaks about preventing teen suicide.
Please contact us with information about yourself and your current interests.
www.devereux.org /site/PageServer?pagename=ictr_index   (138 words)

  
  Genocide:Meaning and Definition
Since this was an internal domestic matter, a crime committed against their own people during a domestic conflict, their prosecution sets an important precedent for the application of international humanitarian law.
Moreover, many states cooperated with the ICTR, including complying with ICTR arrest warrants, thus setting additional precedents.
The other tribunal is The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), which was established in 1993 with regard to serious violations of humanitarian law.
www.hawaii.edu /powerkills/GENOCIDE.ENCY.HTM   (6112 words)

  
 Tanzania
On foreign policy, Tanzania has taken a leading diplomatic role in East Africa, hosting peace talks for the factions fighting in neighboring Burundi.
The UN International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) is located in the town of Arusha.
In 2002, opposition leaders and foreign donors criticized the president's costly new $21 million personal jet.
www.infoplease.com /ipa/A0108028.html   (978 words)

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