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ICTR receives human rights award

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The ICTR has handed down 11 judgements since its inception in 1995
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    The UN International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) has been awarded the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung human rights award, the ICTR reported on Monday. The award was presented in Berlin on 20 May at a ceremony attended by the ICTR president, Judge Navanethem Pillay, the ICTR said. According to an ICTR statement, it was the first time that an international tribunal has won an award. The statement quoted Pillay as saying the award proved that the ICTR, through its jurisprudence and trial proceedings, was "establishing a historical record of what happened in Rwanda between April and July 1994". The Security Council established the ICTR in 1995 to try the perpetrators of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda in which about 800,000 Tutsis and politically moderate Hutus were killed by extremist Hutus.

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