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Protection vs Publicité

(2 Articles)

  • - contribution 17 (WEBSTER Don)

    français english (original version)

    tags

    witnesses - Protection vs Publicité
    I think in some respects the witness protection regimes in the ICTR have not caught up to the changes in the global situation of witnesses introduced by Gacaca in Rwanda. In a context where Gacaca forces everyone to testify without any sort of protection, it makes the way we’ve approached witness protection in the ICTR out of pace with global developments in managing witnesses of genocide. If witnesses can testify without protection in Rwanda, I don’t see why the same regime can’t be introduced in the ICTR. Witness protection issues impact upon some of the questions that Madam Conde (...)

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  • - contribution 39 (ARREY Florence Rita)

    français english (original version)

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    Civil law vs Common law - Position of victims in proceedings - witnesses - Protection vs Publicité
    Thank you very much so that Judge Short shouldn’t start. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I just wanted to say that after the Akayesu case, Media case and the Kambanda Case, in December last year the Tribunal also came up with another landmark where it was held that music could constitute genocide. In the Bikindi case, the Court found that in three compositions of Bikindi, the lyrics in those songs were used during the genocide, that is, from April to June, RTLM played the songs with comments from the journalists. Because of the message conveyed, because of the words that were contained in the (...)

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