KIGALI, Jan. 20 (Xinhuanet) -- The UN International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) and Rwandan National Prosecution Services have come up with a strategy of blacklisting and indicting key genocide masterminds still at large, an official said here Friday.

    "We set up a mobile group of judicial investigators and prosecutors to comb the territory, compiling a list of key genocide masterminds still on the run, along with credible evidence putting them in Category One with a view of prosecuting them wherever they may be," the Deputy Prosecutor General Martin Ngoga told reporters.

    Emmanuel Rukangira, a Senior State Attorney who heads the investigating team said that there are about 308 diehard perpetrators of the 1994 Genocide, with France, Canada, Belgium and Italy harboring the most notorious personalities who allegedly planned, supervised and executed the killings.

    The latest list is a mock contrast of the 72 key genocide masterminds indicted by the Arusha-based UN Tribunal ever since its inception in 1995.

    "The number could even be between 400-500 at the end of the exercise," Rukangira said, adding that the biggest obstacle to successful indictment and extradition of the fugitives is lack of valid extradition treaties and mutual bilateral cooperation of thehost nations."

    As a result, the nations such as Belgium, Canada, Italy and the Scandinavian countries have assumed universal jurisdiction over the Rwandan genocide cases and their judicial authorities are mutually working with their Rwandan counterparts in prosecuting the fugitives from wherever they are.

    "Since 2000, the Canadian, Belgian and Norwegian judicial authorities have been coming here in pursuit of dossiers of Rwandan genocide suspects." Enditem