When will Rwandans understand the real raison d’etre of ICTR?

Editor,When will Rwandans finally understand that the way the ICTR was constructed was never primarily about dispensing justice for the horrors they endured in a genocide willfully ignored by the world’s “great and good” as it happened in full daylight (and openly abetted by one of their members without a squeak from the rest)?

Saturday, June 29, 2013

Editor,When will Rwandans finally understand that the way the ICTR was constructed was never primarily about dispensing justice for the horrors they endured in a genocide willfully ignored by the world’s "great and good” as it happened in full daylight (and openly abetted by one of their members without a squeak from the rest)?In reality, the ICTR has always been about neutralising accusations about the great powers’ determined refusal to adhere to their treaty obligations to prevent, suppress and punish the international crime of genocide, without embarrassing an important member of their exclusive club deeply implicated in that genocide, or setting legal precedents that might eventually come back to bite them given their own potential legal jeopardy from their international behaviour.It is these reasons that determined the rules of procedure, the sitting and staffing of international ad-hoc tribunals as well as the rules governing the ICC to minimise the possibility of their getting out of their own control to dispense equal justice to all without consideration of extraneous geo-political factors.Mwene Kalinda, Kigali, RwandaReaction to the story, "ICTY prosecutor seeks retrial after allegations against Meron”, (The New Times, June 26)