Also, this particular military tribunal of the U.S. is being seriously questioned by international legal experts as maybe being outside international law.

What is often forgotten about that tribunal, because it really has no link to the modern day criminal courts or the International Criminal Court, is that it was an international military tribunal.

(c) public denial of the crimes defined in Article 6 of the Charter of the International Military Tribunal appended to the London Agreement of 8 April 1945 insofar as it includes behaviour which is contemptuous of, or degrading to, a group of persons defined by reference to colour, race, religion or national or ethnic origin;

Article 6(c) of the charter defines crimes against humanity as murder, extermination, enslavement, deportation and other inhumane acts committed against any civilian population before or during the war; or persecution on political, racial or religious grounds in execution of all in connection with any crime within the jurisdiction of the tribunal whether or not in violation of the domestic laws of the country where the crime was perpetrated'. ' (1555) So as to not downplay the cruelty of actions taken against civilians, it is essenti ...[+++]al to remember, at least during the commemorative week, that behind these words are people, friends and faces.

Article 6(c) of the charter defines crimes against humanity as murder, extermination, enslavement, deportation and other inhumane acts committed against any civilian population before or during the war; or persecution on political, racial or religious grounds in execution of all in connection with any crime within the jurisdiction of the tribunal whether or not in violation of the domestic laws of the country where the crime was perpetrated.

Hon. Anne C. Cools: Honourable senators, pursuant to rule 56(1)(2) and 57(2), I give notice that, in two days' time, I will call the attention of the Senate to the military invasion of Rwanda by the Rwandese Patriotic Army, RPA, and the Ugandan National Resistance Army, the NRA, on October 1, 1990; and to the deaths of the Rwandese President Juvénal Habyarimana and Burundi President Cyprien Ntaryamira in an aeroplane crash on April 6, 1994, and the situation in Rwanda; and to the United Nations Security Council Resolution 955(1994) constituting the United Nations War Crimes Tribunal for Rwanda whose Chief Prosecutor is Justice Louise A ...[+++]rbour, a Canadian judge; and to the legal and constitutional foundations in international law for this and like tribunals; and to the prosecution of accused Rwandan citizens for violations of humanitarian law and war crimes during the period January 1 to December 31, 1994; and to my visit to Arusha, Tanzania, as prompted by the International Lawyers Organization, which includes barrister Ramsey Clark, former Attorney General of the United States of America, and barrister Luc De Temmerman of Belgium, to observe the operations of the United Nations War Crimes Tribunal for Rwanda.