Global Governance - Human Rights UN Special Tribunal

Question 1

What are the 4 case studies for UN Special Tribunals

Answer 1

• Former Yugoslavia
• Cambodia
• Rwanda
• Sierra Leone

Question 2

What was the Rwanda case about and when was it opened

Answer 2

Opened in 1997.
Investigating the Rwandan genocide, in which 800,000 Tutsis were murdered

Question 3

How many were convicted in the Rwanda trials

Answer 3

61 individuals, including former president Kambanda who became the first head of government to be convicted on charges of genocide

Question 4

How did the Rwanda trial develop international law (success)

Answer 4

by establishing the precedent that rape could be used as a way of perpetrating genocide

Question 5

What year was the Sierra Leone case about and what happened

Answer 5

2002
To try those who had committed atrocities during the country’s 10- year civil war. Charles Taylor had supported opposition groups in their attempted to gain control of the country’s diamond mines. Resulting in gangs murdering the victims

Question 6

Sierra Leon success

Question 7

Sierra Leone failures