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Tribunal aims to speed up genocide trials

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    The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) announced yesterday that it would start to implement measures to speed up trials of individuals suspected of participation in the 1994 genocide. The measures, adopted last year, include a decision that judgement and sentencing would be dealt with as one and not two separate procedures.

    The new procedures are to be implemented next Monday in the trial of Alfred Musema, a former director of a tea factory in Kibuye prefecture. He is charged with seven counts of genocide, conspiracy to commit genocide, crimes against humanity and serious violations of the Geneva Convention. In his initial appearance in November last year, he pleaded not guilty on all counts.

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