de Brouwer, Anne-Marie; Smeulers, Alette --- "Introduction" [2016] ELECD 1510; in de Brouwer, Anne-Marie; Smeulers, Alette (eds), "The Elgar Companion to the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2016) 1

Book Title: The Elgar Companion to the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda

Editor(s): de Brouwer, Anne-Marie; Smeulers, Alette

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781784711696

Section Title: Introduction

Author(s): de Brouwer, Anne-Marie; Smeulers, Alette

Number of pages: 12

Abstract/Description:

Twenty-one years after having been set up, the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR or Tribunal) completed all pending cases and closed its doors in December 2015, having issued its last appeal judgement in the Nyiramasuhuko et al. (‘Butare’) case on 14 December 2015. The UN Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals (UNMICT) is still in place, however, to continue the ‘jurisdiction, rights and obligations and essential functions’ of both the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and ICTR and to maintain their legacy. With the closing of the ICTR proper, this volume comes at a good moment to reflect on its work: what did the ICTR achieve, what challenges did it come across and what lessons can be learned from all of this?