There is a growing contrast between the level of state cooperation experienced by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) and that for the former Yugoslavia, the prosecutor for the two tribunals said on Friday. At a press conference at UN headquarters in New York, prosecutor Louise Arbour said that the African continent had seen a “remarkable willingness” to endorse and support the work of the ICTR, while there was a “tolerated non-compliance” in the case of the states of the former Yugoslavia, a UN press release said. As an example, Arbour said that of the 36 people accused by the Rwanda Tribunal, 34 had been apprehended, arrested, detained and transferred to Arusha, Tanzania, in and by African States. That was in contrast with both the Republika Srpska and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, where all existing public indictments accompanied by arrest warrants had remained outstanding, Arbour said.
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