The government of Rwanda complained that the mission had focused more on reported reprisal killings than on the continuing rebel attacks, now concentrated in the north-western region. Resistance to the rebels also continued, often with fatal results. Trials of those accused of perpetrating the 1994 genocide continued. By April 1999 the UN International Tribunal for Rwandan war crimes had convicted 3 and arrested 38. Rwanda is also prosecuting under its own laws, and at this date had made over 124,000 arrests, of which 1282 cases had been heard.
Sentences range from varying jail terms to execution.
Those prosecuted include Rwandan government officials and ministers, and officers of the Church. Hutu extremism has not yet calmed or been suppressed. The resentful Interamhwe remnant continue a nomadic existence across central Africa, attacking and killing civilians. Their victims have included tourists, with high profile reporting of incidents in August 1998 and March 1999. Vice-President Paul Kagame expressed a vow that genocide would never again occur in the country, and that armed forces would remain alert to protect Rwanda's borders.