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The Brussels-based think tank, International Crisis Group, on Friday issued a report describing the performance of the ICTR as "lamentable". It said that seven years after its establishment, the ICTR had handed down verdicts on only nine individuals and not one of the alleged masterminds of the 1994 genocide - including Colonel Theoneste Bagosora who has been in prison for five years - had been brought to trial. However, the report said there were some points in the ICTR's favour. "It has provided indisputable recognition of the Rwanda genocide and has politically neutralised the 'Hutu Power' movement's agenda of Tutsi extermination." But, the report went on, "seven years on, it has still not been able to shed light on the design, mechanisms, chronology, organisation and financing of the genocide, nor has it answered the key question: who committed the genocide?".