What happened in Rwanda?

Twenty years after the Rwandan genocide barely 70 individuals out of thousands involved in the 1994 massacres have been convicted by the UN-backed court that was designed to deliver justice.

The international criminal tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) pioneered the first genocide trials in Africa but after almost 20 years of legal argument and an estimated bill of $1.7bn (£1bn), only a tiny proportion of the Rwandan malefactors has been brought to justice.

Next year the ICTR's courtrooms at Arusha, in neighbouring Tanzania, are scheduled to be handed back to local authorities and returned to use as an international conference centre. The ICTR dealt with the government leadership and those who motivated the interahamwe militias. Excessive court delays, however, caused cases to drag on for up to 10 years.