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New Tribunal president “to increase pace of trials”

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    The newly-elected president of the ICTR, Judge Navanethem Pillay of South Africa, on Monday said her priority will be “to increase the pace of trials with a view to completing the Tribunal’s task within its current mandate period” of four years. “There has to be a limit to the number of suspects we are able to pursue, otherwise we will not be able to finish the cases within the period of our mandate”, ICTR spokesman Kingley Moghalu added.

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