Rwanda’s Genocide Court To Close Doors – Will It Be Missed?
January 6, 2016
After 21 years, 93 cases and $2 billion, the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda wound up business at year’s end with one final case. The judges deliberated on an appeal sought by Pauline Nyiramasuhuko, the former minister for women’s development, her son, Arsene Shalom Ntahobali, and four government officials. Their convictions, which they sought to overturn, included genocide, complicity in genocide, crimes against humanity among other major crimes. The Tribunal, however, upheld the convictions although lowering the long sentences for the ex-minister and son for complicity in the deaths of thousands of Tutsis in their home town of Butare. There,