ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the issues related to the Completion Strategy of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR). In order to cope with the tremendous backlog of cases, the Rwandan government passed organic law in 2000 which established village courts known as gacaca courts. The chapter also examines the Completion Strategy of the two tribunals and addresses the capacity of the national courts in the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda to administer justice not only in the cases which are transferred but more generally in cases which involve war crimes indictments. As part of the Rome Agreement signed in February 1996 by the presidents of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), Croatia and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, the so-called "rules of the road" (RoR) procedure was introduced to ensure that national courts met international legal standards.
