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Posts published in January 2008

Completion strategies – ICTR/ICTY expiry date approaching

As stated by the UN Security Council in its resolutions 1503 and 1534, the two UN backed ad hoc tribunals, the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) and the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY), are supposed to complete all activities at first instance by the end of this year. Whereas all investigations ended by the end of 2004 already, the courts’ are moreover supposed to end all activities in 2010, i.e. including all possible appeals. This completion strategy obviously has its justification (inter alia) in the financial burden caused by the two courts (the annual budget for…