The International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (IRMCT) will close its Kigali field workplace on August 31 after practically 30 years of operations in the nation.
The details was shared by the system’s registrar Aboubacar Tambadou throughout an interview in Kigali, on Thursday, February 15. Tambadou kept in mind that the choice was notified by the reality that the Arusha branch of the system which was managing cases of the 1994 Genocide versus the Tutsi no longer has any trials to perform.
“With the end of the case versus Felicien Kabuga in 2015, the choice was made to close the Kigali field workplace,” he kept in mind.
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Continue to engage with Rwanda
In a regrettable turn of occasions, Kabuga’s trial was forever suspended by the court in 2023, due to the fact that he was considered unsuited to stand trial.
“With no other trials prepared for at the system, the choice was made to close the Kigali field workplace,” Tambadou stated, before including that the closure does not indicate an end of engagement in between the IRMCT and Rwanda.
“The system will continue to engage with Rwanda in the other mandated activities under the statute of the system. Mainly from our branch in Arusha. In specific, services such as the security of witnesses will continue to be provided,” he kept in mind.
“Other services, naturally, will need to be moved from the system to either the Rwandan federal government or a non-governmental entity. Those conversations and assessments have actually begun with the Rwandan authorities for the shift and supreme handover of a few of those duties from the system.”