ICTR under spotlight as Sierra Leone convicts arrive

KIGALI - The decision not to transfer to Rwanda suspects and convicts from International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), has once again put the tribunal under spotlight as a fellow UN court sends in convicts to serve their sentences in the country. According to experts and government officials the coming of eight Sierra Leone convicts, to serve their prison sentences in Rwanda, is likely to mount pressure on the ICTR to revisit their infamous decision. In March, Rwanda and the Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL), a UN instituted tribunal for masterminds of the crimes committed during Sierra Leonean civil war signed an agreement to see some of the convicts serve their jail terms here.