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Africa Subsaharan
French court frees Rwanda genocide suspects
2007-08-03
Of course they did. French always take care of their own.
(SomaliNet) French media reported that a French appeals court yesterday released two Rwandans indicted by Kigali and an international court in connection with the central African country's 1994 genocide.

Le Monde newspaper reported on its Web site that Rwanda had sought the extradition of Roman Catholic priest Wenceslas Munyeshyaka and another man, Laurent Bucyibaruta, but the court ruled the indictments violated the presumption of innocence.
An indictment usually does set forth why the state thinks the charged person is guilty.
They were detained last month because of the indictments issued by Rwanda and the Tanzania-based International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), which is prosecuting top architects of the genocide. The two have lived in France for years.

The present Tutsi-led Rwandan government wanted Munyeshyaka to be transferred to Rwanda to serve a life sentence as he had been tried and sentenced in absentia. It wanted Bucyibaruta to stand trial. The ICTR has charged Bucyibaruta, a former top local official in Gikongoro district, with genocide, direct and public incitement to commit genocide, extermination, murder and rape.

Munyeshyaka, former head of the Sainte-Famille parish in Kigali, was sentenced in absentia to life in jail in November by a military tribunal for complicity in genocide and rape.
Posted by:Steve White

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