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The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) in Arusha, Tanz., responsible for trying the alleged leaders of the 1994 genocide, returned verdicts against several notorious suspects.

The lull ended with the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War, and the first significant war tribunals thereafter were established by the United Nations in the 1990s the ad hoc International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia at The Hague (ICTY), in 1993, and the ad hoc International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda in Tanzania (ICTR), in 1995.

When the Security Council established the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) in late 1994, he became its chief prosecutor, too.

Arrested in Cameroon in March 1996, he was transferred to the ICTR's headquarters in Arusha, in northern Tanzania, in November 1997, to face half a dozen counts.

The ICTR, located in Arusha, Tanzania, can also boast substantial achievements.

Correction: An earlier version of this report used figures based on an annual budget for the ICTY and ICTR, when in fact they both now operate with a biennial budget.

The 1998 ICTR Jean Paul Akayesu case in particular has often been regarded as a historical achievement, as it successfully prosecuted rape as genocide (Haddad 2011; Scully 2009), despite the initial lack of readiness to do so (Haddad 2011).

It is worth noting that all defendants in that ICTR trial have been acquitted of charges of conspiracy to commit genocide prior to 1994 when the then Rwandan president Habyarimana, a Hutu, and Burundi's president Ntaryamira were killed when their plane was shot down.

This standard has been upheld by the UN tribunal set up after the Balkan war (ICTY), the UN tribunal set up after the genocide in Rwanda (ICTR) and the ICC itself.

Finding that international tribunals prefer qualitative research to quantitative, Wilson examines why that is so in his work, utilizing two specific cases: the Prosecutor v. Nahimana, Barayagwiza and Ngeze in the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) and the recent Šešelj case in the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) heavily critiqued in the press.

International criminal tribunal of Rwanda (ITCR) Based in Arusha, Tanzania, the ICTR commenced sentencing for the 1994 Rwandan genocides in 1999.