{UAH} WE NEED TO STOP VIOLENE AGAINST THE POPULACE

PRESIDENT Jakaya Kikwete asked all countries that host the remaining suspects of the Rwanda Genocide to surrender them to Arusha for trials.

He issued the plea here while laying the foundation stone for the ongoing construction of the proposed UN Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals (MICTs) at the Laki-Laki Hills of the Kisongo wilderness in the outskirts of Arusha city. The UN Security Council Resolution 1966 (2010) established the MICTs that became effective three years ago.

The tribunal is supposed to complete the remaining work of the Arusha-based International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) and the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), after the completion of their respective mandates.

MICT, whose construction will be completed next year, will take over the trial of the remaining renegades, including the notorious Mr Felician Kabuga.

“Just as Tanzania and the United Nations are playing their part in ensuring that all perpetrators of international crimes are brought to justice, other countries also have moral responsibility to flush out the remaining suspects connected to the Rwanda mass killings of 1994 who are still at large and definitely holed up in some states,” pointed out President Kikwete.

He also addressed the issue of relocating the 11 individuals who have been acquitted by the UNICTR, but are still in Tanzania because there are yet countries ready to take them under their care.

The issue has become extremely urgent, considering that the Arusha-based Tribunal will be closing its operations and departing from Arusha in three months’ time.

United Nations Assistant Secretary Generals, Mr Stephen Mathias (Office of legal affairs) and Mr Stephen Cutts (Central Support services) used the occasion to laud Tanzania for hosting the MICT, including donating the land for its construction and praised President Kikwete for being in the forefront in the battle against impunity.

The MICT has two branches, one in Tanzania, which is being constructed at Laki-Laki area of Kisongo neighbourhood in Arusha and the other one has been set up in The Hague, Netherlands.

The mechanism will serve as residual cases’ court building, archives holder, Rwanda 1994 genocide museum and educational centre on information related to the ICTR and Rwanda.

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