THE United States has offered rewards of up to $5m for information leading to the arrest or conviction of Rwandan war crimes indictees who are still at large. The State Departments Richard Boucher said the rewards would be given for information that results in the “transportation” of indictees to the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) that sits in Arusha, Tanzania, or their “conviction” by the body. To date, the tribunal has 44 of 53 publicly indicted individuals in custody for war crimes alleged to have been committed during the Rwandan civil war, which pitted members of the Tutsi tribe against rival Hutus and resulted in the deaths of between 500_000 and 800_000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus. – AFP