1. INTRODUCTION
1.1 The International Criminal Tribunal
1.2 Jurisdiction of the Tribunal
1.1 The International Criminal Tribunal
1.2 Jurisdiction of the Tribunal
"Article 2: Genocide
a) Killing members of the group;
b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.
a) Genocide;
b) Conspiracy to commit genocide;
c) Direct and public incitement to commit genocide;
d) Attempt to commit genocide;
e) Complicity in genocide.
Article 3: Crimes Against Humanity
The International Tribunal for Rwanda shall have the power to prosecute persons
responsible for the following crimes, when committed as part of a widespread
or systematic attack against any civilian population on national, political,
ethnic, racial, or religious grounds:
a) Murder;
b) Extermination;
c) Enslavement;
d) Deportation;
e) Imprisonment;
f) Torture;
g) Rape;
h) Persecutions on political, racial, and religious grounds;
i) Other inhumane acts.
Article 4: Violations of Article 3 common to the Geneva Conventions and of Additional Protocol II
The International Tribunal for Rwanda shall have the power to prosecute persons committing or ordering to be committed serious violations of Article 3 common to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949 for the Protection of War Victims, and of Additional Protocol II thereto of 8 June 1977. These violations shall include, but shall not be limited to:
a) Violence to life, health and physical or mental well-being of persons, in particular murder as well as cruel treatment such as torture, mutilation or any form of corporal punishment;
b) Collective punishments;
c) Taking of hostages;
d) Acts of Terrorism;
e) Outrages upon personal dignity, in particular humiliating and degrading treatment, rape, enforced prostitution and any form of indecent assault;
f) Pillage;
g) The passing of sentences and the carrying out of executions without previous judgement pronounced by a regularly constituted court, affording all the judicial guarantees which are recognised as indispensable by civilised peoples;
h) Threats to commit any of the foregoing acts."
"Article 6: Individual Criminal Responsibility
1. UN Document S/RES/955 of 8 November 1994.
2. Preliminary Report of the Commission of Experts established pursuant to Security Council Resolution 935(1994), Final Report of the Commission of Experts established pursuant to Security Council Resolution 935(1994)(Document S/1994/1405) and Reports of the Special Rapporteur for Rwanda of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights (Document S/1994/1157, Annexes I and II)
3. The Rules were successively amended on 12 January 1996, 15 May 1996, 4 July 1996, 5 June 1997, 8 June 1998, and 4 June 1999.