Tanzania, Feb. 23 -- Arusha. The United Nations Detention Facility (UNDF) in Arusha, which hosted convicts and suspects of the Rwanda genocide fugitives for years, is set for closure.

The 89 cell institution located in the high security prison on the outskirts of Arusha city will on February 28 be handed over to the Tanzania government.

Its closure signals the end of activities for the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (the Mechanism), which was mandated to try the key suspects in the 1994 Rwandan mayhem.

The tribunal, or "mechanism," took over the activities of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), which closed shop in December 2015 after convicting about 60 suspects.

The facility was exclusivel...