Nairobi — The ongoing case of Congolese rebel leader Laurent Nkunda will come before Rwanda's Supreme Court, Mr Nkunda's lawyer said Tuesday.
After a series of requests at civilian and military courts at lower levels, lawyer Stephane Bourgon has said he has been forced to go to Rwanda's Supreme Court in pursuit of Mr Nkunda's release from Rwandan authorities.
"My client has the right to know why he has been arrested, why he is detained and how long this illegal imprisonment will last, considering that there is still no valid arrest warrant and that no charges have been laid against him," said Mr Bourgon in a press statement released today.
Mr Nkunda, the Tutsi general who was arrested by Rwanda in early January, has been reportedly held in Rwandan custody since January 22nd of this year; for over 10 months.
Mr Bourgon, a Canadian-born lawyer who in the past has represented Yugoslav war criminals, has tried repeatedly to free Mr Nkunda through Rwanda's legal system. According to him, he has still not been able to meet with his client.
"In a state said to be governed by the rule of law, this is simply unacceptable."
The Rwandan government has said in the past that Mr Nkunda has been allowed to meet with his family. Research experts linked to the United Nations in eastern Congo have also said that Nkunda has been in contact with some of his former soldiers now supposedly integrated into the Congolese army. Many say he still holds influence.
But according to Mr Bourgon, and the Nkunda family who has filed for his release to the courts, the Rwandan government has bent backwards to extra-legally detain his client and has repeatedly betrayed its own constitution.
"The Supreme Court, the highest judicial body of the Republic will therefore have to rule not only on the illegality of Laurent Nkunda's detention but also on the violation of his fundamental rights protected by the Constitution of Rwanda," the press statement reads.
The ongoing legal saga highlights the complications Rwanda's new membership to the British Commonwealth poses to the post-colonial group. The country joined the Commonwealth last weekend, becoming its 54th member, but had to overcome a barrage of criticism over its human-rights policy, including its judiciary.
Mr Nkunda was arrested in the beginning of the year after Rwanda and the Congo came to an agreement over violence in eastern Congo that was seen to be swiftly spiralling out of control.
"Hopefully, the admission of Rwanda as a member of the Commonwealth will have a positive effect on the situation of Laurent Nkunda," said Mr Bourgon, "and the Supreme Court will dare assuming its responsibilities and rule on the illegality of his detention."
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CONSPIRACY THEORIES DO NOT BLAME OTHERS FOR YOUR IMBALANCES. WE WILL SEE THE TRUE FACE IN THE COMING DAYS WHETHER YOU LIKE OR NOT. SO YOU BETTER WAIT AND SEE ALSO SINCE YOU ARE STILL BLIND. I WILL REMIND YOU THAT DAY, MR CONSPIRACY THEORIES.
RWANDA TRUE FACE, your rants will not solve anything. Just come here with something intelligent that we can sit back and say, "yeah, he has used his brains before writing." As you can see there is nothing yet official that has been said by both Rwanda and the DRC on this matter. If you read the article properly before ranting, you'd realise that it is the lawyer of Nkunda who made some quotes.
Need I remind you that the DRC and Rwanda have restored diplomacy with their embassies fully functional?
BY PEACE SHALL Many Be deceived (Daniel 8:25) .
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#1
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#3
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Ask the people in Rwanda (who survived that Peace-keeping) about the
United Nations PEACEKEEPERS .
President Obamas UNITED NATIONS AMBASSADOR SUSAN RICE cut her teeth on
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In his piece entitled White Collar War Crimes, Black African Fall Guys,
investigative journalist Keith Snow writes:
First note that the ICC can now be viewed as a tool of hegemonic U.S. foreign policy,
where the weapons deployed by the U.S. and its allies include the accusations of, and
indictments for, human rights violations, war crimes and crimes against humanity.
To understand this, we can ask WHY NO WHITE MAN HAS YET BEEN CHARGED
with these or other offenses at the ICC (International Criminal Court) which now holds
five black African warlords and seeks to incarcerate and bring to trial another black man,
also an Arab, Omar Bashir.
Why hasnt George W. Bush been indicted ? Or what about Donald Rumsfeld ?
Dick Cheney? Henry Kissinger? Ehud Olmert? Tony Blair?
The sad fact is that the International Criminal Court has become terribly
politicized, as has the entire international justice apparatus.
The ICC has issued indictments, for the first time in history, against a sitting head of
state. Meanwhile, according to Snow, an Israeli weapons dealer, also a reputed Mossad
operative, is revealed to be shipping weapons into Sudan with Pentagon support.
And Belgium changed its law rather than prosecute Ariel Sharon for war crimes.
The double standard cries out to us.
One country in the West, however, increasingly stands out as a place where
justice can be found?and that is Spain. With its landmark indictment of
Pinochet and its current consideration of Israeli war crimes in Lebanon and
U.S. torture in Guantanamo, we increasingly look to the Spanish Courts with
hope. It was the Spanish courts that returned indictments against Rwandan
soldiers for genocide even as the world coddles U.S. proxy Rwanda and its
leader, Paul Kagame.
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BY PEACE SHALL Many Be deceived (Daniel 8:25) .
DOES THE TERM PEACEKEEPERS ring a Bell ?
Ask the people in Rwanda (who survived that Peace-keeping) about the UN PEACEKEEPERS .
President Obamas UNITED NATIONS AMBASSADOR SUSAN RICE cut her teeth on the RWANDA MASSACRE .OOOPs!!! She said.
(Heres a Search Link To Many Witnesses To THE NEW U.N. RICE MONSTER)
[http://ixquick.com/do/metasearch.pl?query=Susan+Rice+Rwanda&cat=web&pl=ff& language=english]
OBAMA DECEPTIONS
#1
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrpRocaEfQE]
#2 Here is evidence of Point 2 of the Georgia Guidestones on Reproduction .
Don't be deceived :
[http://www.infowars.com/?p=7259]
Here are search result links to what the Georgia Guidestones are
[ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_Guidestones ]
#3
BY PEACE SHALL Many Be deceived (Daniel 8:25) .
DOES THE TERM PEACEKEEPERS ring a Bell ?
Ask the people in Rwanda (who survived that Peace-keeping) about the
United Nations PEACEKEEPERS .
President Obamas UNITED NATIONS AMBASSADOR SUSAN RICE cut her teeth on
the RWANDA MASSACRE . OOOPs!!! She said.
(Heres a Search Link To Many Witnesses To THE NEW U.N. RICE MONSTER)
[http://ixquick.com/do/metasearch.pl?query=Susan+Rice+Rwanda&cat=web&pl=ff& language=english]
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This is a joke. This is a real joke. Is Nkunda a Congolese or Rwandese? Why they can't extradict him to DRCongo? Why the CPI is not ordering Nkunda extradition in their prison? This is a joke and real joke. The international community has not done enough to recognize DRCongo legitimacy, but the Congolese population blood, inoncent blood, that has been shaded on the ground for political reason in the interest of Western, eastern and American multinationals is now crying to the Lord almighty. The Lord Jesus Christ will respond to all those world authorities who are not preventing president Kagame of Rwanda through Joseph Kabila to create havoc to DRCongo. This is really desappointing to see DRCongo population dying like animals as if there were no superpowers countries to intervene and save them. We are all human beings and the human right is universal. Let Jesus-Christ see how criminality is becoming legal in today's life. Lord Jesus Christ see this, everyone involved, directly or indirectly, and bless them for this riches they are chasing, amen!
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