The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) held its final hearing on Wednesday, concluding more than 20 years of work indicting those responsible for the 1994 genocide, which saw the deaths of more than 800,000 people.
Based in Tanzania, the ICTR has indicted 93 people throughout its history, becoming the first international tribunal to deliver verdicts in relation to genocide and the first to recognise rape as a means to carrying out genocide, reports the BBC.
As the final hearing concludes, 61 defendants have been convicted and 14 acquitted by the court. Other suspects have been tried by different courts, remain at large or have since died.
The final hearing was an appeal from former women's minister Pauline Nyiramasuhuko, who was the first woman to be found guilty of genocide by an international tribunal, when she was convicted in 2011.
She appeared in court pleading with the judges to acquit her, stating she was "not the type to commit these heinous crimes for which I was sentenced."
She was the last of 6 defendants to appear before the tribunal with rulings expected later this year.
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