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...Assembly for more money to push it through to the end of 2009, apart from its 2008-2009 operating budget of more than $230 million. "It will be very wrong for anyone to compare how much it costs to the value that ICTR has achieved," says court spokesman Roland Amoussouga. "Have you seen how the message coming out of the Bagosora case was received by whole international community? That value has no price...
...cases. Those figures rankle the Rwandans, who believe they could have accomplished more at home, more quickly and with less cash. But finding the suspects - even for such a tiny fraction of the country's likely killers - is a challenge. "International justice does not come cheap," says Roland Amoussouga, spokesman for the ICTR. Tribunal funds have had to cover everything from locating and indicting the suspects to negotiating their transfer - from countries as far-flung as Cameroon and Zambia, Switzerland and the U.S. - and then hosting long and complicated trials. More than 2,000 witnesses have been flown...
...negotiations. And the ICTR has begun shifting jurisdiction over the accused to individual countries, entrusting them to try those fugitives found after the ICTR's deadline. "There will always be a framework in place to ensure these people can be tried. We are confident that nobody will escape justice," Amoussouga says. Rwanda's Justice Minister Karugarama agrees; otherwise, he says, the "never again" dogma will be rendered meaningless...
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