A U.N. panel recently awarded 13 months back pay to a former employee charged with killing some of his colleagues during the Rwanda genocide in 1994, The New York Times reports.

The United Nations Administrative Tribunal made the award on September 30 after another U.N. board recommended that the employee, Callixte Mbarushimana, receive sixth months of back pay. Mbarushimana appealed for higher compensation and won, the Times says.

A U.N. war crimes investigator indicted Mbarushimana for directing or taking part in the killing of 32 people, including fellow U.N. employees, during the Rwanda genocide. According to the Times, he was never prosecuted, despite eye-witness accounts.

The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda dropped the indictment, the Times says, because Mbarushimana was not one of the leaders of the genocide.

The war crimes investigator plans to make a formal submission to the Rwanda tribunal asking that they reopen the case.

The submission says that there is "direct evidence" that Mbarushimana led and ordered the killing of "about 10 adults, women and children" from a family of another tribal group. The head of the family was a driver with the U.N. World Food Program, the Times says.

The submission also says that there is "strong evidence" that Mbarushimana directed the killing of a second family headed by another U.N. employee and that he manned road blocks at which people were killed.

The San Francisco Chronicle reported that Mbarushimana continued to hold two jobs with the United Nations in Angola and Kosovo after the Rwanda killings until he was finally dismissed in 2001.

Mbarushimana brought his action seeking back pay arguing that he had a "legitimate expectancy" of receiving contract renewals, even though his contract with the U.N. included a clause that stated specifically that there was "no expectancy of renewal," the Chronicle said.

The U.N. established the Rwanda war crimes tribunal after it utterly failed to prevent the 1994 genocide in which more than 800,000 Tutsis were killed by rival Hutu death squads, despite the world body’s significant presence in the country while the killing occurred.

Once again, the United Nations offers no justice to the victims or survivors, even when the victims are its own employees. Instead, the world body graciously writes the perpetrator a check.