The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) will deliver its verdict on December 20 in the trial of the former Minister for Planning, Augustin Ngirabatware.
According to the Hirondelle Agency, it will be the last trial judgment of this court that the UN must file its balance sheet at 31 December 2014.
The former leader is a son of Felicien Kabuga, the most famous of the nine accused still wanted by international justice for their alleged role in the genocide against Tutsis in 1994.
Late July, the prosecutor had requested life imprisonment against the former minister while the defense pleaded for acquittal.
Ngirabatware is essentially accused of being the main instigator of the massacres of Tutsis in his native town Nyamyumba (North) in 1994.
To refute most of these accusations, he presented an alibi defense, claiming he was abroad at the time of most of the facts alleged against him.
PhD in Economics from the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, Ngirabatware was a teacher at the National University of Rwanda (1986-1994), then Minister of Planning (1990-1994).
During his exile from July 1994, he worked in various research institutes in Gabon and France.
He was arrested in Germany on 17 September 2007 and in the hands of the ICTR since 8 October 2008. His trial, which was conspicuous by its slowness, opened on the bottom on 22 September2009.
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