\nArusha, 3 July 2008 (FH) - The Chamber of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) trying six persons accused of having helped the genocide in Butare ,southern Rwanda, has limited the lawyer\u2019s final trial briefs to 200 pages and gave them only six weeks to produce them.
\nThe prosecutor will, for his part, have 400 pages to expose his arguments.\n<\/p>\n
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\nThe parties will have 45 days to produce these documents at the conclusion of the presentation of all the evidence.
\n This trial involves a former minister, Pauline Nyiramasuhuko, her son, Arsene Ntahobali, two former Governors and two former Mayors began on 12 June 2001 and is presided by Judge William Sekule.
\n This is the longest and the largest trial. By Thursday, it had reached its 670th day of hearings.
\nThe last defendant Elie Ndayambaje called his 13th witness from a list of 30. According to Pierre Boul\u00e9, the lawyer of this former mayor, this unexpected decision of Judge Sekule shows that the Chamber was trying to end the proceedings before the end of the year.
\nThe Tribunal received from the United Nations Security Council the order to end its first instance trial by the end of this year. Unable to do so because of the many defendants waiting for their trials, the Tribunal has asked for a one year\u2019s extension.
\nAccording to Nicole Bergevin, Nyiramasuhuko\u2019s main lawyer, the principle of \u201caudit alteram partem\u201d (the right to be heard) is not respected. \u201cIt is not the title of a song\u201d, she added regretting a \u201clack of consideration\u201d for the parties.
\nOf the dozen of trials which have been at the ICTR since 1977, the size of the final trial briefs has been very different.
\nThe bulkiest was the prosecutor\u2019s brief in the Military I case which was 999 pages and which the Chamber has been working on for more than a year in order to render its judgment. The thinnest was against Colonel Aloys Simba at 94 pages which led to his conviction to 25 years in prison.
\nIn regards to the defence, the wordiest until now have been Ferdinand Nahimana\u2019 lawyers (437 pages), who could not prevent him from being sentenced to life in prison, a sentenced reduced in appeal to 30 years. The shortest were Jean Mpambara\u2019s defenders who on 77 pages obtained his acquittal.
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