International War Crimes Tribunal in Rwanda
Speaker:
Stephen Rapp
12 Apr 2006
8:00 PM
Sun Room, Memorial Union
Stephen Rapp , a former U.S. attorney in Iowa, has spent the last four years rounding up and prosecuting suspects in the 1994 Rwandan genocide that left 800,000 dead. As chief of prosecutions for the head of the United Nations' International War Crimes Tribunal of Rwanda, he is coordinating at least 40 more trials, assisting in international efforts to find suspects hiding abroad, and teaching what he's learned practicing a largely uncharted area of international law. Part of the World Affairs series on Global Justise and Human Rights.