Rwanda: Rwanda wins Congo Case in World Court

The International Court of Justice has ruled that it does not have jurisdiction to try Rwanda over human rights abuses, alleged plunder and illegal invasion of the DR Congo. Congo brought the charges against Rwanda in 2002. It accused Rwanda of armed aggression, mass slaughter, rape, arbitrary detentions, systematic looting and assassinations. The Hague-based ICJ, also known as the World Court, said as Rwanda had not accepted UN conventions against such crimes as torture and degrading behaviour, on which Congo based its case, it could not make a ruling.