Prosecutor urges "genuine justice" in Barayagwiza case

Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) Carla Del Ponte on Tuesday began her case for the reversal of an Appeals Court decision in November that genocide suspect Jean-Bosco Barayagwiza should be released on procedural grounds. Del Ponte argued that "genuine justice" demanded that the decision be overturned, and that the Appeals Court had paid "undue deference" to the rights of Barayagwiza, accused of
playing a leading role in the 1994 genocide, news organisations reported. "If Barayagwiza can't be tried, that will amount to a violation of the rights of the victims," Associated Press (AP) quoted Del Ponte as telling the five-judge appeals panel, sitting in Arusha, Tanzania.