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ICTR prosecutor to investigate Barayagwiza case

    NAIROBI

    The new Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), Carla del Ponte, has said she is taking recent criticism of the prosecutor’s office “most seriously and with much regret”. Referring to the dismissal of the case against genocide suspect, Jean-Bosco Barayagwiza, due to procedural deficiencies, she said in a press release that she would do all she could to ensure that prosecutions of other cases “are conducted with proper dispatch in future”. She added that she was due to pay her first visit to Rwanda this month and would stay as long as necessary to examine the circumstances of the case.

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