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Never Again: Questioning The Yugoslav And Rwanda Tribunals, Makau Wa Mutua Jan 1997

Never Again: Questioning The Yugoslav And Rwanda Tribunals, Makau Wa Mutua

Journal Articles

Fifty years after Nuremberg, the international community has again decided to experiment with international war crimes tribunals. The stated purpose for the establishment of both the Yugoslav and Rwanda Tribunals by the United Nations are to “put an end” to serious crimes such as genocide and to “take effective measures to bring to justice the persons who are responsible for them.” This piece argues that both assumptions are unrealistic and that such tribunals will have little or no effect on human rights violations of such enormous barbarity. In addition, this piece questions the motivations behind the formulation of the tribunals …


Trial Of The Century? Assessing The Case Of Dusko Tadic Before The International Criminal Tribunal For The Former Yugoslavia, Mark S. Zaid Jan 1997

Trial Of The Century? Assessing The Case Of Dusko Tadic Before The International Criminal Tribunal For The Former Yugoslavia, Mark S. Zaid

ILSA Journal of International & Comparative Law

It is more than bitter irony that nearly fifty years to the day after the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg rendered its judgment, we are here today analyzing the first international war crimes trial held since the end of World War II.