Tuesday's vote in the 15-member council was 13 in favor, with Rwanda casting the only negative vote and China abstaining. Rwandan UN envoy Manzi Bakuramutsa listed a series of objections to the way the tribunal would function including its inability to impose the death sentence, unlike Rwandan courts.
Between 500,000 and 1 million people, mainly members of the Tutsi minority and Hutu opponents of the former Hutu-led government, are estimated to have been massacred in Rwanda over the past six months.
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