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Golden Gate University Law Review

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2010

Human rights

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Justice For Rwanda: Toward A Universal Law Of Armed Conflict, Heather Alexander Sep 2010

Justice For Rwanda: Toward A Universal Law Of Armed Conflict, Heather Alexander

Golden Gate University Law Review

Section I of this Comment provides a history of the Rwandan armed conflict and a description of the laws of armed conflict. It focuses on the basic laws of armed conflict, the Geneva Conventions and Additional Protocols, and describes how these laws have been interpreted by the ICTY and ICTR. Section II addresses the classification of the Rwandan armed conflict as a non-international conflict. This section discusses Ugandan support for the invading Rwandan Patriotic Front ("hereinafter RPF") and the murder of ten Belgian U.N. peacekeepers by Rwandan troops. The Section proposes changing the definition of an international conflict, thereby strengthening …


Security Council Resolution 808: A Step Toward A Permanent International Court For The Prosecution Of International Crimes And Human Rights Violations, Daniel B. Pickard Sep 2010

Security Council Resolution 808: A Step Toward A Permanent International Court For The Prosecution Of International Crimes And Human Rights Violations, Daniel B. Pickard

Golden Gate University Law Review

This comment examines the difficulties involved in implementing Resolution 808, and also its contribution to the development of a permanent international criminal court (hereinafter "ICC"). The comment begins with an overview of Security Council Resolution 808. The comment next considers the factors that have stopped previous attempts to create an ICC. Finally, the author proposes that a permanent ICC could and should be implemented and that the earlier difficulties in establishing such a tribunal have been overcome.