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Article: UN genocide tribunal opens one more court room in Tanzania
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- Xinhua News Agency
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- March 2, 2005
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UN genocide tribunal opens one more court room in Tanzania
DAR ES SALAAM, March 2 (Xinhua) -- The International Criminal
Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) has opened one more court room to speed up
its hearing and trial of genocide cases, apart from dispersing some
cases to Rwanda.
The newly-opened court room is the fourth in the Arusha-based
United Nations court that was established in 1995 to try key
perpetrators of the 1994 massacre in Rwanda where as many as 800, 000
people, most of them minority Tutsis, were claimed to have been
killed.
The UN court has planned to close all its hearings and trials
before 2008.
The first three court rooms were constructed between 1995 and 1999
while the ...