Rwandan President Paul Kagame revealed Monday that genocide survivors compensation was in the offing.

"We are currently holding several debates to ease the survivors reparation process and working around the clock to ensure that the process is carried out in time, " Kagame told journalists.

The President however noted that ambiguity still dogs two instrumental parties -- the former Rwanda government that committed the crime and the complicit international community that stood by during the genocide.

If the current government pays the indemnities of the crimes committed by the previous regimes, the international community has also to pay for what they did, the President said.

So far, 5 percent of the annual national budget has gone to the fund for assistance of genocide survivors.

Minister of Justice Edda Mukabagwiza had earlier said that the government had come up with a new proposal to set up a comprehensive assistance plan for the victims of the 1994 mayhem.

Mukabagwiza said a draft Bill regarding the compensation of genocide survivors had already been written and that her ministry was set to begin consulting several stakeholders on the draft.

She said then that one of the proposals is to increase the annual 5 percent budgetary allocation to survivors, and that there are prospects for financial assistance from the United Nations.

The government last year sent a document containing a list of needs for survivors to the United Nations Secretary General, Koffi Annan, upon the request.

The UN, in charge of the world body's peace missions at the time of genocide, is accused of inaction during the 100-day genocide in which about one million lives perished.

Source: Xinhua