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Guess whose turn it is to preside over the U.N.'s pre-eminent Security Councilcome autumn? That's right: Rwanda, where the unstable Hutu-led government is accused of committing thousands of atrocities. Extraordinarily, even as diplomats discussed a special U.N. tribunal today to investigate genocide in the central African...
Crimes in all three categories have been documented in Bosnia. "The credibility of international humanitarian law demands a tribunal to hold accountable those responsible," says Theodor Meron, professor of international law at New York University Law School. He suggests that such trials "should deter those who envisage 'final solutions' to...
Cherif Bassiouni, who chairs the U.N. Commission of Experts appointed to study Bosnia war crimes, has passed 65,000 documents to the Hague tribunal. Ten three-woman teams, each consisting of a prosecutor, a mental-health specialist and an interpreter, have interviewed 200 rape victims and gathered data on 800...
The U.N. tribunal -- if it ever gets started -- will be breaking new ground in the history of war-crime prosecutions. Some Nuremberg precedents have been rejected: no defendants will be tried in absentia; nobody will be hanged. All the tribunal can do, says Theo Van Boven, the court's registrar...
In Nuremberg and Tokyo, the defeated were tried by the victors. "In Bosnia there is no victory," says Dominique Wouters, a tribunal legal officer. The chief judge, Italian legal scholar Antonio Cassese, says that makes the creation of the tribunal "a turning point in international relations. For the first time...