Rwanda: Activists Petition New French Justice Minister Over Genocide Suspects

22 November 2010

Kigali — Hardly a week after French President, Nicolas Sarkozy, appointed a new government, on November 14, rights groups have written to the new French minister of justice, Michel Mercier, drawing his attention on suspected Genocidaires living in France.

In the latest petition dated November 19, three international human rights groups - African Rights, the Collectif des Parties Civiles pour le Rwanda (CPCR), and REDRESS, underline that they previously tried to alert Mercier's predecessors on the presence in France of suspects linked to the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda.

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