Rwandan genocide convicts granted early release

by admin
Dec 17, 2012

Two men convicted for their roles in the Rwandan genocide have been granted early release from their imprisonment in Mali by the Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals (MICT).

The MICT was established in 2010 to handle assist both the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) and International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY).

The decision to release the two convicts has drawn criticism from survivors, with Jean Pierre Dusingizemungu, President of Rwandan genocide survivors organisation Ibuka said,

"The international justice should be seen as an educative mechanism, which, should be teaching lessons to ensure that such heinous crimes are not repeated anywhere. Now on top of giving them short sentences, they do not even let them complete them."

Four other convicts have been granted early release by the MICT as of yet.

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