Last Days for UN Court Trying Suspects in Rwanda Genocide (The New York Times)
Published by The New York Times - December 15, 2015 (page A6)
ARUSHA, Tanzania — This town, near the edge of the Great Rift Valley, has long been a jumping off point for safaris. But intermingled with the zoom-lens-wielding tourists and camouflage-green safari trucks has been another common sight: buttoned-up legal staff members drawn from all over the world.
They have long converged here in a conference-center-turned-fortress in the center of town, guarded by United Nations police officers.
But now, after 21 years, 93 cases and $2 billion, the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda is closing down.
The last defendants to appear before the tribunal sat beside their robed lawyers in a cramped courtroom on Monday, waiting nervously for a decision in their appeals.
