27.10.09 - ICTR/PROSECUTORS - COLLOQUIUM OF PROSECUTORS TO BE HELD IN KIGALI

Arusha, October 27, 2009 (FH) - The fifth Colloquium of Prosecutors of the international criminal tribunals will be organized in Kigali, November 11 to 13, under the theme: "International criminal justice: lessons from the past, reflections on the future".

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The meeting will bring together current Prosecutors and Deputy Prosecutors, Chiefs of Prosecutions, Chiefs of Investigations, Chiefs of Appeal, all former Prosecutors and former Deputy Prosecutors of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), the Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL), the International Criminal Tribunal for ex-Yugoslavia (ICTY), the International Criminal Court (ICC) and the Extraordinary Chambers in the Court of Cambodia (ECCC).

The first meeting, in 2004, was hosted by the ICTR in Arusha. Subsequent gatherings were hosted by the Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL) in 2005, jointly by the ICTY and the ICC in The Hague in 2006 and by the ECCC in Phnom Penn, Cambodiam, in 2007.

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