Delays, legal intricacies slow down genocide cases

Emmanuel Mbarushimana, one of the genocide suspects, when he was returned to Rwanda in July 2014. His case is among those that have dragged in the courts. PHOTO | FILE

Rwanda’s judiciary is caught between a rock and a hard place as trials of extradited genocide suspects fail to take off amid delays and legal intricacies.

Kigali would have wished to see the cases of high profile genocide suspects sent to Rwanda by several countries and the International Criminal Tribunal of Rwanda (ICTR) smoothly tried and used to convince others to send more cases to the counrty.