41. The UN Security Council decided Tuesday to create an international tribunal charged with trying people responsible for acts of genocide or serious human rights violations this year in Rwanda. 42. The United Nations and the Freetown government earlier this month also signed an agreement setting up a Special Court to try people who committed war crimes during the conflict. 43. The tribunal is not allowed to try people in absentia. 44. The tribunal, based in The Hague, was set up by the UN Security Council to try people accused of war crimes in the former Yugoslavia. 45. The Supreme Court, the only court with power to try people protected by parliamentary immunity like Gonzalez, was to meet Thursday to decide the next steps. 46. The UN Security Council decided Wednesday that the international tribunal charged with trying people suspected of acts of genocide in Rwanda will be headquartered in Arusha, Tanzania. 47. The United Nations is setting up a special court in Sierra Leone to try people accused of war crimes during the decade-long civil war. 48. US officials refuse to see their people tried in non-American venues. 49. It will not be empowered to impose the death sentence, unlike Rwandan courts, and it will not be able to try people in absentia. 50. Membership also compels Russia to try people responsible for human rights violations in the conflict in Chechnya and to reform judicial and sentencing legislation. |