“No confidence” in Tribunal

Rwanda on Monday registered a “vote of no confidence” in the ICTR, citing the court’s “behaviour and output”. At a UN General Assembly meeting to review the work of the UN tribunals for Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia, Rwandan representative Joseph Mutaboba said his country’s own judicial system had rendered more than 20,000 genocide-related indictments since 1994, compared to the 48 people indicted by the ICTR, a UN statement reported. If the two existing UN tribunals were seen as ineffectual, the international community should reconsider its commitment to creating an international criminal court, which would amount to “a permanent version of a temporary failure, and a permanent United Nations failure for Rwanda”, Mutaboba said.