The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda was an international ad hoc court established by the United Nations Security Council in November 1994, through Resolution 955, to prosecute those responsible for the 1994 Rwandan genocide. Seated in Arusha, Tanzania from 1995, it had jurisdiction over genocide, crimes against humanity, and violations of the Geneva Conventions committed in Rwanda and neighboring states that year, indicted 96 people, and by its closure on 31 December 2015 had convicted 61 and acquitted 14. Among its most significant rulings was the case against Jean-Paul Akayesu, which established that rape used as a weapon of genocide is itself an act of genocide, and its remaining functions passed to the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Source Wikidata: Georges Abi-Saab
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Source Wikipedia: Navi Pillay
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1. International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (Wikipedia)
Introduction, founding year
The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda was an international ad-hoc court established in November 1994 by the United Nations Security Council in Resolution 955 in order to adjudicate people charged for the Rwandan genocide and other serious violations of international law in Rwanda, or by Rwandan citizens in nearby states, between 1 January and 31 December 1994.
Introduction, jurisdiction scope
The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda was an international ad-hoc court established in November 1994 by the United Nations Security Council in Resolution 955 in order to adjudicate people charged for the Rwandan genocide and other serious violations of international law in Rwanda, or by Rwandan citizens in nearby states, between 1 January and 31 December 1994.
- Has Member: Patrick Robinson, Judges listed in the article: Patrick Robinson
View the SourceWikidata: International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda
Wikidata Q478358, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)View the Source Lloyd George Williams - Wikipedia
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(June 16, 1927-January 16, 2008) was a barrister in Jamaica, then a High Court Judge of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court and later a Judge of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda from 1999 to 2004 in Tanzania.
Wikipedia: Navi Pillay
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She has also served as a judge of the International Criminal Court and President of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda.
Taghreed Hikmat (Wikipedia)
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She was a judge on the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda from 2003 to 2011.
Dennis Byron (Wikipedia)
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He also serves as President of the Commonwealth Judicial Education Institute, and is former President of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), and former Chief Justice of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court.
William H. Sekule (Wikipedia)
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Sekule (born 1944) is a Tanzanian judge who served on the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) in Arusha, Tanzania between May 1995 and March 2013.
Theodor Meron - Wikipedia
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He served as a judge of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), and the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (Mechanism).
Wolfgang Schomburg (Wikipedia)
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Wolfgang Schomburg (born 9 April 1948 in Berlin) was the first German Judge at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda.
Florence Mumba (Wikipedia)
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She has also previously served as a judge in the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda and the Supreme Court of Zambia.
Wikidata: Georges Abi-Saab
Has Member: Georges Abi-Saab, Wikipedia category: International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda judgesView the Source Erik Møse (Wikipedia)
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Møse was a judge at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), Supreme Court of Norway, and the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR).
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