A call for the revision of Protais Zigiranyirazo (...)
In 1994, the International Criminal Court for Rwanda (ICTR) was established in accordance with the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. Unfortunately for Rwanda, it was no longer a matter of prevention as the crime had already been committed. The UN, though warned of the genocide preparations, did nothing to prevent it. It was therefore mandated to punish the genocidaires.
Last Monday, November 16th, 2009, fifteen years after the (...)
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Protais Zigiranyirazo
Protais Zigiranyirazo, alias “Monsieur Z” or also “Zigi”, was born in 1938 in Giciye commune in the prefecture of Gisenyi, Rwanda.
He was the Prefet of Ruhengeri from 1974 to 1989.
He subsequently became a businessman.
He is the brother of Agathe Kanzig (wife of the former President of Rwanda), (...)
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Letter to Mr. Hassan Bubacar Jallow
Letter to Mr. Hassan Bubacar Jallow,
The Prosecutor
International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), Arusha, Tanzania
Dear Mr. Jallow,
We are writing to express to you the profound bitterness and anger with which we have learned of the 16 November 2009 decision by the ICTR Appeals Chamber to (...)
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•The Appeals Chamber of the ICTR acquits a master (...)
•Letter to Mr. Hassan Bubacar Jallow
•For a real international justice
•Protais Zigiranyirazo
•A call for the revision of Protais Zigiranyirazo (...)
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The Appeals Chamber of the ICTR acquits a master (...)
Diogène Bideri
Introduction
On 16/11/2009, the Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda acquitted Protais Zigiranyirazo (1), who had been sentenced by the Trial Chamber for genocide and extermination as a crime against humanity on 18/12/2008.
The Trial Chamber (...)[continue]
Fair Trials For Rwanda
For a real international justice
www.fairtrialsforrwanda.org
For the first time since its adoption in December 1948, the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide found its practical application with the genocide of Rwanda’s Tutsi from April to July 1994.
The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), (...)[continue]
Rwanda: Ibuka Threatens to Cut Ties With ICTR
The New Times
Eugene Mutara
21 November 2009
Kigali — The president of Ibuka, an umbrella body of Genocide survivors’ associations, has threatened to cease cooperation with the Arusha-based International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) for what the group described as (...)[continue]