At the invitation of then-Secretary General of the United Nations Kofi Annan , Judge Byron , while serving as Chief Justice of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court , from which position he retired , became a permanent Judge of the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda ( ICTR ) in 2004 . The ICTR was established by the United Nations Security Council to try war crimes committed during the Rwandan genocide of nearly 1 million people in 1994 . Sir Dennis was elected President of the Tribunal in May 2007 and re-elected for a second term in May 2009 . There are 23 other Judges over whom Sir Dennis presides as President of the ICTR . They are , in order of precedence , from Pakistan , Jamaica , United Republic of Tanzania , Turkey , Italy , China , Senegal , United States of America , Malta , Madagascar , Sri Lanka , Russia , Uganda , Kenya , Cameroon , Ghana , Jordan , Republic of Korea , Burkina Faso , Denmark , Madagascar , Turkey and Czech Republic . Sir Dennis was elected and re-elected President by his fellow Judges , in testimony to their confidence in his competence to lead the Tribunal
Rwandan genocide
Rwandan genocide
Dennis Byron