Political Science · India's Foreign Policy
The first international tribunal to deal with terrorism as a crime was the:
ASpecial Court for Sierra Leone ✓ Correct
BInternational Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda
CNuremberg Tribunal
DNone of the above
Correct answer: (A) Special Court for Sierra Leone — The Special Court for Sierra Leone was the first to treat terrorism as a crime, so the answer is that option.
Explanation
★The Special Court for Sierra Leone was the first to treat terrorism as a crime, so the answer is that option.
★It was set up jointly by the UN and Sierra Leone.
★It tried grave crimes from Sierra Leone's civil war.
★It was the first international court to charge acts of terrorism as such.
★It thus broke new ground in international criminal law.
★So the Special Court for Sierra Leone is the answer.
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