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Rwanda: Kagame Criticises Bishop Over Remarks
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The Citizen (Dar es Salaam)
21 June 2008
Posted to the web 23 June 2008
The Citizen Correspondent
President Paul Kagame of Rwanda has made a scathing attack on recent remarks by the Head of the Catholic Church in Rwanda pertaining the trial of Rwanda Patriotic Front soldiers over the 1994 genocide.
Archbishop Thadee Ntihinyurwa had opted that the trial of the four RPF soldiers alleged to have killed members of the Catholic clergy during the 1994 genocide, was best to have it conducted outside Rwanda in the interest of justice.
The Archbishop had told foreign media in an interview last week that he was not convinced that the church's lost clergy would get justice, citing possible interference from government authorities.
"Justice can only be rendered by foreigners not Rwandans that are most likely to be compromised by the establishment" claimed Ntihinyurwa.
According to the Rwanda's pro-government newspaper, New Times, President Kagame instead reminded the Church that it failed the people of Rwanda in 1994 and that he was surprised that opposition was coming from someone who, in the past, had been subject to investigations into his personal role in the genocide.
Ntihinyurwa was then Bishop of Cyangugu at the time of genocide until 1996, when he was named to succeed Archbishop Vincent Nsengiyumva, who was among 13 clergymen allegedly killed by the RPF soldiers on 5 June 1994 in Kabgayi, Muhanga District, central Rwanda.
The four soldiers have already appeared this week before the Rwandan Military Court and two of them have pleaded guilty.
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However, all four are held in detention because investigations have not been completed.
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