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Other award recipients include Alvaro M. Bedoya ’03, the Harvard-Rwanda Project, Nadia S. Johnson ’03, Kent K. Lam ’03, Scott S. Lee ’03, Alexander B. Patterson ’04 and Courtney A. Roberts...
These tribunals do not have any legitimate authority to judge these defendants. The only possible response to that from the backers of the tribunals is, “So what?” In Nuremburg, in Yugoslavia and in Rwanda, the “international community,” meaning the strong nations, decided that the crimes were so heinous that they didn’t care that they had no statutory authority under an existing legal framework to prosecute these cases. Rather, they invented a court and prosecutors, created rules for it to follow, and gave it powers (based...
...RWANDA Past Tense Police arrested former President Pasteur Bizimungu and said he would face charges of illegal political activity and threats to state security. Bizimungu headed the first government of national unity after the 1994 genocide. He resigned two years ago over policy differences and set up his own political party, which was immediately banned. Police also detained former Public Works Minister Charles Ntakirutinka after seizing documents from his home...
...trial of Rwandan Colonel Theoneste Bagosora for the murder of 800,000 people in 100 days was supposed to begin in Tanzania. However, his current boycott of the proceedings has led to an adjournment of his trial until September. Bagosora will be facing the International War Crimes Tribunal for Rwanda, a special U.N. tribunal set up to punish those responsible for the ethnically-motivated massacres in Rwanda in 1994. In another U.N. war crimes trial, former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic has taken a similar strategy of obstructionism. He delays his trial with each of his attempts to halt the proceedings...
Although the worlds of Rwanda and Yugoslavia seem to be vastly different, the machinations of both their leaders in the war crimes tribunals threaten the authority and future success of the international legal system and the ICC. For international jurisdiction even to have a chance, Bagosora and Milosovic must not be allowed to manipulate and circumvent the courts...