It was probably at paragraph sixteen of the judges’ sentence that the prosecution team must have started to feel queasy, for it was here that the statement expressly admonished them. ‘Several elements underpinning the prosecution case about conspiracy were not supported by sufficiently reliable evidence.’ A crucial accusation against the four military officers was unproven – that they had conspired together to commit genocide. The judges had determined that the evidence submitted for the charge of conspiracy to commit genocide was circumstantial and not sufficiently reliable.
