ICTR, why fret when the answer is near?

The clock is ticking for the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR). Many of its senior officials have been jumping ship in the last couple of years in search of greener pastures, because the postman will soon stop calling with a fat cheque at the end of every month. It has not always been smooth sailing for the beleaguered tribunal from the day it decided not to hold the trials where the crimes were committed – Rwanda, as it did for Sierra Leone. Set up in 1994, it was not until 1997 that the first trials began, now 15 years down the road; it has only managed to complete 41 cases. But not everything has been a total failure in Arusha, at least some of the masterminds of the Genocide against Tutsis have received their comeuppance, sounding the alarm that the world will not let genocidaires walk free [sic]. The language in vogue now at the ICTR has been enriched with; residual mechanisms, exit strategy, legacy and so on. These should not remain dead letters.