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UN Security Council appoints Prosecutor of International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunal

Xinhua, March 1, 2016 Adjust font size:

The UN Security Council on Monday adopted a resolution to appoint Serge Brammertz as Prosecutor of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (IRMCT).

Brammertz's term runs from March 1, 2016 until June 30, 2018. The prosecutor of the mechanism maybe appointed or reappointed for a two-year term, said the resolution.

Brammertz of Belgium was appointed as Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in 2007 and was reappointed by the Security Council in 2011, according to the UN.

He has served for more than a decade in senior positions charged with investigating and prosecuting grave international crimes.

Brammertz, born on Feb. 17, 1962 in Eupen of Belgium, holds a law degree from the University of Louvain-la-Neuve, a degree in Criminology from the University of Liège and a PhD in international law from the Albert Ludwig University in Freiburg, Germany.

IRMCT was set up by the Security Council in December 2010 to ensure no impunity for those responsible for serious crimes committed in Rwanda, as well as the Balkans, in the 1990s.

The council mandated IRMCT to take over and finish the remaining tasks of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) and the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) when they are closed after their mandates expire.

Based in the northern Tanzanian town of Arusha, the ICTR was set up after the Rwandan genocide in 1994, when at least 800,000 ethnic Tutsis and politically moderate Hutus were killed during three months of bloodletting following the death of the then president Juvenal Habyarimana.

The ICTY which is based in the Hague, Netherlands, was set up in 1993 to deal with war crimes that took place during the conflicts in the Balkans in the 1990s. The ICTY was the first war crimes court created by the UN and the first international war crimes tribunal since the Nuremberg and Tokyo tribunals. Enditem