It was recommended by the Commission of Experts that the Security Council take all necessary and effective action to ensure that those responsible for the 1994 Tutsi genocide were brought to justice.15 The Security Council responded by creating the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) on 8 November 1994, the second such tribunal in history after the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY, established 25 May 1993).
