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International criminal law ICTR-2001-70-A

Prosecutor v Rukundo Emmanuel

Court
International Tribunal for Rwanda
Case number
ICTR-2001-70-A

The Appeals Chamber found that the indictment did not sufficiently plead 'committing' as a mode of liability for genocide and crimes against humanity in relation to the killings at Saint Joseph’s College and Saint Léon Minor Seminary; thus, convictions on that basis were set aside and replaced with convictions for aiding and abetting. The conviction for genocide by causing serious mental harm to Witness CCH was reversed due to insufficient evidence of genocidal intent. The evidence otherwise supported Rukundo’s responsibility for aiding and abetting genocide, murder, and extermination. The se…

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  • Genocide
  • Crimes against humanity
  • Aiding and abetting liability
  • Sexual violence in conflict
  • Fair trial rights
  • Sentencing
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International criminal law ICTR-96-4-T

The Prosecutor v. Jean-Paul Akayesu

Court
International Tribunal for Rwanda
Case number
ICTR-96-4-T

Jean-Paul Akayesu is individually criminally responsible for genocide, crimes against humanity (including extermination, murder, torture, rape, and other inhumane acts), and direct and public incitement to commit genocide, based on his acts of ordering, instigating, aiding and abetting, and participating in killings, sexual violence, and other atrocities against Tutsi civilians in Taba commune. The Chamber found that these acts were committed with specific intent to destroy the Tutsi group, as part of a widespread and systematic attack on ethnic grounds, and that Akayesu exercised authority a…

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  • Genocide
  • Crimes against humanity
  • War crimes
  • Command responsibility
  • Sexual violence in conflict
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