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Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law [MPEPIL]

International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR)

Fausto Pocar

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Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law [MPEPIL]
Article last updated:
November 2007

From: Oxford Public International Law (http://opil.ouplaw.com). (c) Oxford University Press, 2023. All Rights Reserved.date: 20 March 2023

Subject(s):
International criminal law, conduct of proceedings — Prosecution — International organizations, practice and procedure — International criminal courts and tribunals, composition

Published under the auspices of the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law under the direction of Professor Anne Peters (2021–) and Professor Rüdiger Wolfrum (2004–2020). 

1 The decision taken by the United Nations Security Council (‘UNSC’; United Nations, Security Council) in Resolution 955 (1994) of 8 November 1994 to create the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (‘ICTR’) was preceded by several reports confirming the commission of acts of genocide and other widespread, flagrant and systematic violations of international humanitarian law in the territory of Rwanda (Humanitarian Law, International). As early as March 1993, a report issued by an International Commission of Inquiry comprised of four respected non-governmental...
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