Rwanda: U.S Piles Pressure On Spain, UK Over Arrested General Karake

A high-level review of allegations against Rwanda's spy chief Gen Karenzi Karake arrested last month in London, by an interagency panel within the US government found the case is baseless, says a former top State Department official.

The interagency review was ordered by former US secretary of state Condoleezza Rice in July 2008 when Gen Karake was just ending his 1year tenure as deputy commander of UN troops in Darfur, Sudan. Earlier in February, Gen Karake had appeared on a list of 40 Rwandan officials indicted by a Spanish judge over war crimes.

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