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Trial of former officers postponed

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    The trial of the alleged mastermind of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, Theoneste Bagosora, and three other Rwandan former senior military officers was on Wednesday postponed to September, the United Nations spokesman in New York, Fred Eckhard, told journalists.

    "The judges felt that more time was needed by both the prosecution and the defence to ensure the trial would proceed smoothly," he said.

    The trial, dubbed the "military trial", opened on Tuesday at the Arusha-based International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR). The accused, however, were not present in court, but were represented by their lawyers.

    Bagosora, former directeur de cabinet in the defence ministry, has been accused along with Lt-Col Anatole Nsengiyumva, former commander of military operations in Rwanda's northwestern Gisenyi sector, Maj Aloys Ntabakuze, former commander of the para-commando battalion, and Brig-Gen Gratien Kabiligi, former chief of military operations.

    They were charged at the joint trial with genocide, conspiracy to commit genocide, complicity in genocide, direct and public incitement to commit genocide, crimes against humanity for murder, extermination, rape, persecution and other inhumane acts, an ICTR press release said.

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