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Cultural Relativism In International War Crimes Prosecutions: The International Criminal Tribunal For Rwanda, Ida L. Bostian Jan 2005

Cultural Relativism In International War Crimes Prosecutions: The International Criminal Tribunal For Rwanda, Ida L. Bostian

ILSA Journal of International & Comparative Law

"While academic debates about the possibility of objective truth and falsehood are often rarified to the point of absurdity, Rwanda demonstrated that the question is a matter of life and death."'


An Assessment Of The Yugoslavia War Crimes Tribunal, Michael P. Scharf Jan 1996

An Assessment Of The Yugoslavia War Crimes Tribunal, Michael P. Scharf

ILSA Journal of International & Comparative Law

In May 1993, in response to the "ethnic cleansing" of some 250,000 Muslims in the former Yugoslavia, the Security Council adopted a resolution establishing the Yugoslavia Tribunal; in September 1993, the General Assembly elected the Tribunal's judges; and in July 1994, the Security Council appointed its Prosecutor.