The Spokesperson of the International Criminal Tribunals for Rwanda (ICTR), Roland Amoussouga has confirmed that the fifth Colloquium of Prosecutors of the international criminal tribunals will be organized in Kigali on 11 November until 13 November

The event will be held under the theme: "International criminal justice: lessons from the past, reflections on the future".

The meeting seeks to review new developments in international criminal law and share experiences.

The meeting will bring together current Prosecutors and Deputy Prosecutors, Chiefs of Prosecutions, Chiefs of Investigations, Chiefs of Appeal, all former Prosecutors and former Deputy Prosecutors of the ICTR, the Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL), the International Criminal Tribunal for ex-Yugoslavia (ICTY), the International Criminal Court (ICC) and the Extraordinary Chambers in the Court of Cambodia (ECCC).

The event is usually held under a rotational basis. The first meeting, in 2004, was hosted by the ICTR in Arusha. Subsequent gatherings were hosted by the SCSL in 2005, jointly by the ICTY and the ICC in The Hague in 2006 and by the ECCC in Phnom Penn, Cambodia, in 2007.