An Inside Look at the First United Nations Prison, located in Tanzania to hold detainees being tried at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. If convicted and sentenced, African countries have agreed to imprison them; the United Nations is exerting pressure for these countries — so far Mali, Swaziland and Benin — to bring conditions in their prisons up to acceptable standards to host those convicted of some of the most heinous genocidal atrocities known. Internews, which got this ‘scoop’, is a US-funded organization that provides support to worldwide independent media; I wasn’t aware that they appear to do their own reporting as well.

And in other war crimes news, a US Report Says Serbs Burned Ethnic Albanian Bodies: “Serbian security forces
incinerated the remains of hundreds of ethnic Albanians in a lead refinery during the 1999
hostilities in the Yugoslav province, a U.S. radio reporting team said on Thursday.” An explicit
aim appears to have been to destroy evidence that might lead to war crimes prosecution,
according to a Serbian source close to the operation.