Rwanda has released seventy-six people who were suspected of taking part in the 1994 massacres, citing lack of evidence.

The Rwandan Justice Ministry announced in October that it would be releasing ten-thousand suspects whose paperwork was missing or who were suspected of relatively minor crimes.

There are more than one-hundred-and-twenty-thousand genocide suspects in Rwanda's jails, many of whom have been detained for four years.

The government has made it clear it wants to concentrate on those it describes as the ringleaders.

Courts in Rwanda have handed down about one hundred death sentences in connection with the genocide, of which twenty-two have been carried out.