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...Pillay discussed many of the issues facing the ICTR, including the designation of sexual violence against women as a war crime, difficulties in locating offenders, witness-protection schemes and dealing with government mismanagement...
...Pillay, appointed by President Nelson Mandela as the first black woman on the South African Supreme Court, spoke about the ICTR, which was created by the United Nations in 1994. The tribunal seeks to prosecute those responsible for the genocide and other crimes against humanity committed in Rwanda in 1994. Between 500,000 and 1 million Tutsis were killed, and currently 80,000 suspected criminals sit in Rwanda's prisons, which can only accommodate 50,000 occupants...
Nearly 150 members of the community Tuesday night gathered to hear Navanethem "Navi" Pillay, justice of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), deliver Radcliffe College's sixth annual Rothschild Lecture...
...Pillay said that the ICTR represents the first time the U.N. has held those who violate human rights individually accountable. "It affords the opportunity to discredit perceptions that an entire ethnic group was responsible for the genocide," she said...
...with a fleet of no more than 32 jets. A further quarter will be provided by internal cash flow generated by its policy of using speedy six-year plane depreciation (vs. about 15 years for most U.S. airlines). The rest, or about $450 million, will be financed externally. Says Pillay: "We shall approach the Export-Import Bank for about $360 million and get the rest from commercial U.S., European and Asian banks." If any part of the deal goes wrong, Pillay figures that he could get a loan from a "Middle Eastern country...