Burundi to set up reconciliation commission and war crimes chamber
Burundi on Wednesday approved a United Nations plan to establish a truth and reconciliation commission with a special war crimes chamber to investigate decades of bloody conflict between local Hutus and Tutsis going back to the country's independence in...
UN Secretary General Kofi Annan said in a statement Tuesday that 5,000 Rwandan refugees who fled to the Songore camp in Burundi to escape the 1994 genocide had been involuntarily returned to Rwanda on Sunday and Monday....
Rwandan refugees declared illegal immigrants by Burundi; UN concerned
Some 8,000 refugees from Rwanda face deportation Tuesday after neighboring Burundi declared them illegal immigrants over the weekend. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees has urged Burundi to reconsider and warned it might be violating international...
Rwandan officials announced Friday they will not pursue criminal charges against fugitive Hutu rebels that were aged 14 or younger at the time of Rwanda's 1994 genocide . Children as young as 10 years old took part in...
Former Rwandan minister put on trial for genocide in absentia
The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda put former Rwanda education minister Andre Rwamakuba on trial Thursday despite his refusal to attend the proceedings . Rwamakuba is accused of making lists...
JURIST Guest Columnist Michael Kelly of Creighton University School of Law says that an International Criminal Court finding of genocide in Sudan could change negative American attitudes towards the new Hague tribunal... Genocide may yet be found to have occurred...
Why the International Criminal Court Needs Darfur (More Than Darfur Needs the ICC)
JURIST Guest Columnist Elena Baylis of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law says that while Darfur may be a dream case for the International Criminal Court, the value of the International Criminal Court for Darfur is yet to be...
An appeals court for the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda Monday set aside the life sentence of Juvenal Kajelijeli , convicted in 2003 of genocide and incitement to commit genocide, and converted it to 45 years with...
UN appeals court adds ten years to sentence of former Rwandan politician
Former Rwandan mayor Laurent Semanza saw his appeal before the appeals panel of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda dismissed Friday and his prison sentence extended from 25 to 35 years. Semanza, once mayor of Bicumbi...
Rwandan Defense Minister General Marcel Gatsinzi apologized Thursday before a Gacaca court for taking part in the country's 1994 genocide . Minister Gatsinzi is the first high-ranking official to request a pardon for his role in...
