I read an article in the NewTimes paper dated 16, November 2007, which suggested that the Human Rights Watch had made claims of Rwanda’s incompetence to handle cases transferred from ICTR, and other countries to Rwandan national jurisdictions despite the various positive steps that have been made in the Rwandan judiciary.

I think that Rwanda should be given a chance to prove that it can try Genocide fugitives who may be extradited from different countries.

In fact, for the second time, Rwanda is due to prove its competence to handle cases from ICTR by presenting another document to the court.

Rwanda has the potential to take over cases that will be left by the back-logged UN tribunal when it closes by the end of next year for all cases on substance.

Remera