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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Molly Quell

Final case at UN tribunals for Yugoslavia and Rwanda atrocities comes to an end

UN Tribunal - (Copyright 2019 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)

The U.N. courts set up to prosecute the atrocities committed during the violent disintegration of Yugoslavia in the early 1990s and the 1994 Rwandan genocide held their final session on Wednesday, bringing to an end a decades-long process for international justice.

The hearing marked “a truly historic milestone,” presiding Judge Iain Bonomy said, formally ending the proceedings involving the alleged financier of the genocide, Félicien Kabuga, who died on Saturday.

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