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One of the largest trials ever conducted by an international tribunal since
Nuremberg and Tokyo delivered its judgement yesterday.

NY Times Article: Life Sentences in Rwanda Genocide Case

We sat in the gallery that Friday morning, facing the six Accused, separated by the tinted glass adorned by the cerulean blue UN curtains. Once in a while we looked up at the TV monitors that captured the defendants' every gaze and I caught a glimpse of one mouthing the word: Tutsi.
During that hour, our worlds were confined to our auditory headsets which transmitted the sentence delivered by Presiding Judge Sekule or his interpreter, painstaking line by line, Count after Count, paper shuffles comprised to the biased record of our times...