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Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Monday deplored the “prosecutorial incompetence” of the ICTR which resulted in the release of genocide suspect, Jean-Bosco Barayagwiza. “This decision should jolt the prosecutor’s office and the international community in general, reminding everyone of the need for prompt and exemplary justice,” HRW said in a statement. It recalled that the ICTR’s appeals court freed Barayagwiza because the prosecutor’s office had failed to inform him of charges against him, had not insisted on his prompt transfer from a jail in Cameroon and had not presented him before the ICTR within the specified time period. “The early bumblings and delays of the poorly funded prosecutor’s office have led to a decision that distresses, but should not surprise us,” HRW said.
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