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Rwanda: Talks to Try Burundian Genocide Suspects Begin
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The New Times (Kigali)
18 April 2008
Posted to the web 19 April 2008
Felly Kimenyi
Kigali
Burundian nationals who committed Genocide may after all not get away with it thanks to ongoing talks between authorities in both countries.
The Office of the Prosecutor General has said that they were in the middle of a process to charge some Burundian suspects and that a significant amount of witness statements had been compiled.
The development follows a recent appeal to the Government by IBUKA, an umbrella organisation of Genocide survivors, to devise ways of bringing to justice Burundian nationals implicated in the Genocide.
"We have opened communication with our Burundian counterparts and hope that something will be done soon to have these people stand trial," Prosecutor General Martin Ngoga said yesterday.
He could not however disclose where the Burundians will be tried from.
"The general principle is we are going to work together throughout the entire process and our counterparts in Burundi have been cooperative," he said.
Ngoga added that there was a large number of Burundian nationals implicated in the Genocide who are imprisoned in different Rwandan prisons but said they are still compiling a list of all Burundian suspects which would be forwarded to Burundian authorities.
Ngoga said that a document indicting some Burundians, including testimonies from Gacaca courts, had also been drawn up.
"There is information regarding Burundians that we got from Gacaca courts and we are still assembling it this information is very useful to us in this process," he said.
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During the official closure of the national Genocide mourning week, the president of IBUKA, Theodore Simburudari, called on the Government to facilitate the arrest and trial of Burundians suspected of having had a hand in the Genocide that left over one million people dead.
At the function which was held at Rebero hill, Kigali, Simburudari said that Burundians were particularly involved in killings in the Eastern and Southern provinces. The Genocide occurred at a time when Rwanda was host to thousands of Burundian refugees who had fled their country following a coup in their country.
Many of them are accused of having joined bands of Interahamwe militias to hunt down and kill Tutsis during the Genocide.
All of these stories are fabricated as ,the privious ones so who we have to believe everybody is a genocide actor , this is now becoming a passport for the rwanda to endorse every hutu who is educated to a genocidaire ,tht's a pity. Ruzibiza is telling the truth which you can't stand.
Although these stories might be made up or not. Who knows? But I find your statement of "a passport for the rwanda to endorse every hutu who is educated to a genocidaire" false. You are comparing this government to the prior one that would target the educated tutsis. Please do your research before you jump into ignorant conclusions. Educated Hutus are actually contributing the growth of Kigali's economy. They are not being targeted unless they were involved in the genocide and were not punished for it. There are still many unpunished "Genocidaire" still walking around town, beleive it or not!!!... [Read Full Text]
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