ICTR

Controversies

ICTR publications usually measure efficiency in terms of the part of indicted persons who were put on trial. From that perspective, the ICTR was quite efficient, because it managed to get hold on all the persons for which it had issued arrest warrants. But alike the ICTY, the ICTR did not indict all people which it was tasked and empower to prosecute, because some of the Interahamwe leaders obtained the status of protected witnesses and a new identity (Cruvellier). Félicien Kabuga, a wealthy businessman from the Habyarimana era, who is widely believed to have financed the Interahamwe and provided them with machetes from China, managed to stay in hiding until his arrest in Paris in 2020. His trial started, but later was first interrupted and then terminated due to his dementia and inability to stand trial.