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OTI managed a program in Rwanda that disseminated information on the International War Crimes Tribunal (ICTR). OTI's grantee was the only news organization that covered the Tribunal in English, the language spoken by many Tutsis, on a daily basis. All of the original ICTR-related articles and analysis pieces were carried by Africa News Service and Africa News Online, which distributed them to more than fifty newspapers around Africa.
Two decades of political turmoil and a violent insurgency left thousands of Peruvians dead or missing and unaccounted for. In 2001, Peru's government established a Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) to investigate human rights abuses. OTI provided technical assistance and training to TRC members and staff, as well as to NGOs that work in coordination with the TRC. OTI also helped support media advisors and activities designed to ensure that the TRC's impact was maximized. For instance, OTI supported the production of a manual on effective investigation of mass graves, which was provided to judges and prosecutors seeking to interpret evidence from human remains in Ayacucho, the central Andean region most affected by political violence.
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