In 1994 Haitian Gen Cedras & his cronies stepped down from power as part of a US-brokered deal to forestall a planned US invasion (spearheaded by a massed drop by the 82nd Airborne)- with inducements as part of the peace process, they were then encouraged to be exiled to Panama & given an amnesty for any atrocities committed by the haitian military of their FRAPH paramilitary thugs. Therefore, the Haitian junta were never brought to book for their gross systematic human rights violations committed during 1991-94 after the coup against democratically-elected Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
However, WI Cedras et al had been apprehended & tried by the US/OAS/UN, say in the event of the junta refusing to step down & Op RESTORE DEMOCRACY becoming a hard intervention ? How would such a trial have been conducted & with what likely outcome ? What would've been the effect of such a trial on the development of international criminal law, human rights law, & laws of war ?