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Barayagwiza must be tried, Rwanda says

    NAIROBI

    The defence counsel for genocide suspect, Jean-Bosco Barayagwiza, has argued that the Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) has no jurisdiction to conduct a review sought by the prosecutor. According to an ICTR press statement, the lawyer, Carmella
    Marchessault, said the prosecution had "offered no new facts". The prosecutor, Carla del Ponte, on Tuesday opened her case for a reversal of the Appeals Court's decision to free Barayagwiza on procedural grounds. For his part, the Rwandan prosecutor-general Gerald Gahima, said it was the Tribunal's duty to try the suspect or surrender him to Rwandan jurisdiction.

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