Opened in 1995 , in Arusha , Tanzania, the ICTR (international criminal tribunal for Rwanda ) ,the first tribunal which rendered judgments against people suspected of joining in with the Tutsi genocide, rendered his last verdict December 14 , 2015. The MTPI\u00a0 (a mechanism within UNO) is going to come after , in order to deal with the last fugitives accused of planning the April-June 1994 genocide in which\u00a0 800.000 people died (mostly Tutsi) , to arrest and judge them .<\/p>\n
When it worked , the ICTR indicted 93 people , 61 were convicted, 14 acquitted , 10 sent back to national courts , 3 are still on the run (sent back to the MTPI), 3 died before or during their trial and 2 others saw their indictment removed before the trial. Finally , Alain Gauthier , president of the CPCR thinks that people who took part in the genocide \u201care still living freely\u201d<\/p>\n
How do you summarize the ICTR ?<\/strong><\/p>\n Alain GAUTHIER :<\/strong> This tribunal did exist and recognized the Tutsi genocide. But the assessment\u00a0 is somewhat mixed. In 20 years \u00a0,only 60 people were convicted , which is not much,; even if goods things were done , it is still below all that could have been done. You must bear in mind that in the ICTR , there were no civil plaintiffs ,and, as a consequence , the rights of victims were not taken into account . Some of them , mostly women who had been raped, were humiliated by the judges\u2019 questions and commentaries , together with the defence councels .<\/p>\n READING (in french) : back to the arrest of Ladislas NTAGANZWA, suspected of joining in with the genocide<\/a> .<\/em><\/p>\n In 2011 ,The ITCR cost\u00a0 was evaluated to more than 2 billion dollars. A very high amount of money was spent on lawyers ,\u00a0 for people who were suspected of genocide and crimes against humanity .You mustn\u2019t forget that those people , who appeared in Arusha, were the planners\u00a0 and architects of the genocide . They were charged with the worst facts : rapes , robberies ,killings . Hundreds of them\u00a0 were judged by \u201cGacaca\u201d , popular local courts where wise men were \u00a0used to settling disputes .<\/p>\n Were the ICPR convictions up to the job ?<\/strong><\/p>\n There were 10 convictions in perpetuity , the highest one , which is not important given the seriousness of the facts . What is most shocking is that the heaviest convictions have often been lowered on appeal. The last trial ,in mid December , proved it , once again .Among the 6 persons convicted of crime against humanity at first instance, 3 had a reduction of sentence in appeal , 47 years imprisonment instead of life imprisonment\u00a0 for Pauline NIYIRAMASUHOKO and her son Shalom .She was the only woman judged by the ICTR .Some convictions were reduced . Judges considering that \u201cthe right to an equitable trial in a reasonable period of time led to prejudice\u201d. But whose fault is it if the trials were so long? We also hear that the ICTR cost a lot of money but who is responsible ?<\/p>\n