KIGALI (AFP) - Rwanda has abolished the death penalty, a key step demanded by the international community to transfer genocide suspects to Rwandan courts, the justice minister said on Thursday. "The abolition of death penalty is effective from July 25, 2007," Tharcisse Karugarama told AFP. Abolishing the death penalty was one of the conditions set by the UN-backed International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) to allow the transfer of genocide suspects to the Rwandan judiciary. The bill was initially put forward by President Paul Kagame's Rwandan Patriotic Front, approved by the cabinet at the beginning of the year and approved...