Arusha, March 27, 2012 (FH) \u2013 The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) was on Tuesday compelled again to adjourn the proceedings in the case of former Rwandan Planning Minister Augustin Ngirabatware as the last two rebuttal prosecution witnesses could not come on time to Arusha, Tanzania.<\/p>\n
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\u2018\u2019We will meet here next Monday to hear the prosecution with very specific information on the last two rebuttal witnesses,\u2019\u2019 said Presiding Judge William Sekule in response to the prosecution request for more time to bring the witnesses.<\/p>\n
Updating the Chamber on the witnesses, Prosecution Attorney Wallace Kapaya said both of them, code-named PRW3 and PRW6 were able and willing to come and testify but were held back for different reasons.<\/p>\n
As for the PRW3 the prosecution was waiting for the Nigerian government which he said was \u2018\u2019dragging its feet \u2018\u2019 to grant permission to come for the testimony. On the other hand, PRW6 who is from Senegal was held back by the general elections in the country which ended last Sunday.<\/p>\n
\u2018\u2019We pray for the Trial Chamber\u2019s indulgence for a couple of days as we expect them to arrive before the end of this week,\u2019\u2019 pleaded Kapaya.<\/p>\n
Already six out of eight witnesses have given their testimony in attempt to rebut Ngirabatware\u2019s absence in Rwanda during genocide between April 23 and May 23, 1994.<\/p>\n
The accused claims that within the period in question he was in Senegal and Swaziland. The ex-minister is charged with conspiracy to commit genocide, genocide or in the alternative, complicity in genocide, direct and public incitement to commit genocide, extermination and rape as crimes against humanity.<\/p>\n
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