New Delhi, May 21 -- The U.N. courts set up to prosecute the atrocities committed during the violent disintegration of Yugoslavia in the early 1990s and the 1994 Rwandan genocide held their final session on Wednesday, bringing to an end a decades-long process for international justice.

The hearing marked "a truly historic milestone," presiding Judge Iain Bonomy said, formally ending the proceedings involving the alleged financier of the genocide, Felicien Kabuga, who died on Saturday.

Kabuga, somewhere in his 90s - his age is disputed - and suffering from severe dementia, had been forced to remain in the United Nations detention facility in The Hague after he was found unfit to stand trial in 2023 as no country was willing to take him i...