'International criminal justice often takes time. If someone was very powerful today, it will be difficult to get this person arrested and prosecuted, but wait a number of years,' says UN chief prosecutor Serge Brammertz
This is AI generated summarization, which may have errors. For context, always refer to the full article.'International criminal justice often takes time. If someone was very powerful today, it will be difficult to get this person arrested and prosecuted, but wait a number of years,' says UN chief prosecutor Serge Brammertz
From April to July 1994, Hutus killed close to a million Tutsis in Rwanda using machetes. An estimated 70% of the Tutsi population was exterminated in only three months, making it the fastest, most barbaric genocide in the world to this day. And it happened only 30 years ago. SURVIVOR. Genocide survivor Serge Rwigamba talks to Rappler from the Kigali Genocide Memorial Center where he works. Photo by Lian Buan/RapplerKigali is a mountain city, very much like Baguio City, similar in the way that its developed business districts are separated by only a few blocks from the mess and chaos of traditional markets. The cool weather is similar too. Kigali has lesser traffic.
For UN executives, it’s about what the world has gained from it that matters. “Rwanda gave the world not only precedence in terms of jurisprudence, but Rwanda also gave the world a pause ourselves, what exactly did we do? Like, as human beings, this is what we are capable of doing,” Alice Wairimu Nderitu, UN Special Adviser for the Prevention of Genocide, told Rappler.
REFUGEES. UN Special Adviser for the Prevention of Genocide Alice Wairimu Nderitu visits Congolese refugees in the Nkamira Transit Centre at the Rubavu District in Rwanda on July 24, 2024. Photo from United Nations Rwandan Office/@UNRwandaOne such conflict is the estimated 30,000 people killed in the campaign against drugs by former Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte.
Brammertz said that a combined approach of local and international justice is what worked in Rwanda. In Rwanda, when prisons became full of Hutu suspects, the ICTR’s work was complemented by the gacaca courts, or the traditional Rwandan grassroots dispute resolution process. In all, there were 12,000 gacaca courts that tried 1.2 million cases in the Rwandan genocide.
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