Rwanda wants all outstanding trials for genocide suspects transferred to Rwandan courts when the Tanzania-based International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) closes at the end of this year.

"I think we should be taking over and I think, fairly, we can do a good job of it," Rwandan President Paul Kagame told reporters at a press conference in Kigali Wednesday.

Rwanda's judiciary had been accused of not being able to give genocide suspects a fair trial.

But according to Kagame, the country is now in a position to try the remaining cases, having made significant reforms to its justice system and jails since the 1994 genocide of 800,000 ethnic Tutsis and moderate Hutus.

"The international community doesn't understand the progress that has been made here to have Rwanda merit handling these problems," he said. "They say Rwanda may not have fair justice ... I don't agree with it."

In line with international legislative standards, the African country has abolished the death penalty, built human and logistical capacity and consolidated institutions, according to Justice Minister Tharcisse Karugarama.

"The ICTR have put in place some recommendations which they thought we could improve. We have done it," Karugarama stressed.

However, in a letter to Karugarama in April, executive director of Human Rights Watch Kenneth Roth expressed concern that those found guilty could still be sentenced to solitary confinement, in violation of international law.

"We believe that meaningful human contact is the key consideration as to whether isolation of a prisoner amounts to a human rights violation," Roth said then.

The ICTR was established almost 15 years ago to try those responsible for genocide and other serious violations of international humanitarian law committed in Rwanda during and after the 100-day massacre in 1994.