On December 14, 2006, Joseph Nzabirinda was found guilty of the most minor criminal charge in the history of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR): having been the "approving spectator" of meetings that led to killings during the 1994 Rwandan genocide [IJT-59]. On February 23, he received a seven year prison sentence for the crime to which he had confessed. But the judges added that the initial charges against Nzabirinda (genocide and crimes against humanity) could still be the subject of new complaints. Those charges were dropped for lack of evidence by the ICTR prosecutor "after five years of investigation and analysis".�