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TRIAL CHAMBER II

Before:          
Judge Asoka de Silva, Presiding
Judge Flavia Lattanzi

Registrar:   Mr Adama Dieng

Date:   11 May 2005

THE PROSECUTOR
vs.
THARCISSE MUVUNYI

ICTR-2000-55A-T

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SCHEDULING ORDER ON THE DISCLOSURE OF ADDITIONAL WITNESSES’ STATEMENTS

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Office of the Prosecutor Mr Charles Adeogun-Phillips, Senior Trial Attorney Ms Adesola Adeboyejo, Trial Attorney Ms Renifa Madenga, Assistant Trial Attorney Mr Dennis Mabura, Case Manager

Counsel for the Accused Person Mr William E. Taylor, Lead Counsel Mr Jean Flamme, Co-Counsel Ms. Cynthia Cline Ms. Veronique Pandanzyla

THE INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL TRIBUNAL FOR RWANDA (the “Tribunal”),

SITTING as Trial Chamber II composed of Judge Asoka de Silva, Presiding, and Judge Flavia Lattanzi (the “Chamber”);

BEING SEISED of the Prosecution’s letter addressed to “The Trial Chamber Co-ordinator, Trial Chamber II”, filed on 10 May 2005 (the “Letter”) in which the Prosecution indicated, among other things, that following the Chamber’s order of 24 March 2005, it undertakes to call five additional witnesses to prove the counts of rape and other inhumane acts after all previous witnesses scheduled for the next trial session have been called;

CONSIDERING the Statute of the Tribunal (the “Statute”) and the Rules of Procedure and Evidence (the “Rules”), in particular Rules 54, 66, 69 and 75 of the Rules;

RECALLING

(i)                  The Chamber’s Decision of 24 March 2005 directing the Prosecution to present only those additional witnesses who will support Count 4 and Count 5 of the Indictment;[1]

(ii)                The Chamber’s Decision of 25 April 2001 confirming the Tribunal’s jurisprudence according to which the deadline for disclosure should be set at least twenty-one days prior to the day on which the witness is to testify;[2]

NOTING

(iii)               That the Prosecution has not disclosed the statements of these five new witnesses to the Defence;

(iv)              That the Chamber intends to conclude the Prosecution’s case by late June or early July 2005;

FOR THE ABOVE REASONS THE TRIBUNAL HEREBY

ORDERS the Prosecution, pursuant to Rule 54, to disclose the unredacted statements of all witnesses before the commencement of the next session on Monday, 16 May 2005.

Arusha, 11 May 2005
Asoka de Silva		Flavia Lattanzi
Presiding Judge		Judge
	[Seal of the Tribunal]