Hirondelle News Agency
June 22 07
A Rwandan lawyer, member of the defense team of Father Emmanuel Rukundo, tried before the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), was arrested last Saturday in Kigali, it was learned from a concordant sources in Arusha.
Léonidas Nshogoza, who is an investigator with this team headed by French lawyer Aicha Conde, would be accused of having pressured witness, according to an official statement transmitted by Rukundo to the Hirondelle agency. His arrest was confirmed at the ICTR.
This witness, called BLP in order to preserve his safety, was called by the prosecution 15 and 16 of last November but had been called again by defense so, states the official statement of Rukundo, to reconsider his statements. In addition to the Rwandan authorities, the Office of the Prosecutor, according to the official statement of Rukundo, accuses the lawyer of having pressured the witness so that he reconsidered his statements.
The statement of the accused recalls that Nshogoza was part of the defense team Jean de Dieu Kamuhanda, recently convicted on appeal. In this case, several purgery charges have been issued. One of them resulted in the indictment of a Rwandan witness last week.
This arrest occurs as the Rukundo case, which began on 15 November 2006, must restart at the beginning of July with the presentation of the defense evidence.
Father Rukundo, military chaplain in Ruhengeri (northern Rwanda) then in Kigali, was arrested on 12 July 2001. He is accused of genocide and crimes against humanity and plea non guilty.
22 June, 2007
21 June, 2007
Rwandan Genocide Survivor Murdered in Southern Rwanda.
Hirondelle News Agency
21 June 07
A genocide survivor of 65 years of age, Habib Ganafa Hakizumwami, was killed last Friday by people not yet identified in a village of the Muhanga district, in the south of Rwanda, reported on Wednesday the Rwandan pro-governmental daily newspaper New Times.
Hakizumwami was attacked in the evening as he returned home, indicates the newspaper; stressing that his murderers ripped off his eyes and a tooth.
The local police force arrested 5 suspects and the investigation continues.
According to Uwimana, the daughter of the victim, the murder would be the result of people who feared to be denounced by Hakizumwami for their role in the 1994 genocide.
"My father was a survivor of the genocide and he had a lot of information on the massacres in this area. The killers always expected that he would divulge this information ", she stated to the newspaper.
21 June 07
A genocide survivor of 65 years of age, Habib Ganafa Hakizumwami, was killed last Friday by people not yet identified in a village of the Muhanga district, in the south of Rwanda, reported on Wednesday the Rwandan pro-governmental daily newspaper New Times.
Hakizumwami was attacked in the evening as he returned home, indicates the newspaper; stressing that his murderers ripped off his eyes and a tooth.
The local police force arrested 5 suspects and the investigation continues.
According to Uwimana, the daughter of the victim, the murder would be the result of people who feared to be denounced by Hakizumwami for their role in the 1994 genocide.
"My father was a survivor of the genocide and he had a lot of information on the massacres in this area. The killers always expected that he would divulge this information ", she stated to the newspaper.
ICTR Wants To Transfer 2 Cases to France
Hirondelle News Agency
21 June 07
The Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), Hassan Bubacar Jallow, filed, a week ago, a motion to transfer before French courts two ICTR accused, he announced in a speech Monday in front of the Security Council
“These indictees are residents in France which has jurisdiction over the cases and which has also agreed to receive the cases. We await the decisions on the trial chamber on the requests”, indicated Jallow in this speech that the Hirondelle agency obtained a copy on Tuesday. The text does not, however, mention the identity of the people concerned.
Jallow was at the Security Council for a session devoted to the evaluation of the ICTR completion strategy, which must finish by next year its first instance trials.
The Attorney General of Rwanda, Martin Ngoga who represented his country in New York, reacted at once and said himself "surprised" that the ICTR plans to transfer accused to France, a country that Kigali accuses of having played a part in the 1994 genocide.
Jallow, in addition, invited the Security Council to pressure Kenya and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to arrest the at large ICTR accused.
"We remain convinced, on the basis of reported information, that Félicien Kabuga, continues to live and to carry out commercial affairs" in Kenya, the Prosecutor declared.
“It is necessary that the Security Council and the members on the UN bring their influence to bear on the government of Kenya for it to live up to its international legal obligations by arresting Félicien Kabuga and handing him over to face justice at the ICTR”, stated Jallow.
The ICTR Prosecutor also affirmed that the majority of the 18 accused still at large would be in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The Gambian magistrate proposed a broader vision of the mandate of the United Nations Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUC), which would facilitate collaboration between Kinshasa and the ICTR.
Since the beginning of the trials in 1997, the ICTR, based in Arusha, in Tanzania, has rendered 28 convictions and 5 acquittals.
21 June 07
The Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), Hassan Bubacar Jallow, filed, a week ago, a motion to transfer before French courts two ICTR accused, he announced in a speech Monday in front of the Security Council
“These indictees are residents in France which has jurisdiction over the cases and which has also agreed to receive the cases. We await the decisions on the trial chamber on the requests”, indicated Jallow in this speech that the Hirondelle agency obtained a copy on Tuesday. The text does not, however, mention the identity of the people concerned.
Jallow was at the Security Council for a session devoted to the evaluation of the ICTR completion strategy, which must finish by next year its first instance trials.
The Attorney General of Rwanda, Martin Ngoga who represented his country in New York, reacted at once and said himself "surprised" that the ICTR plans to transfer accused to France, a country that Kigali accuses of having played a part in the 1994 genocide.
Jallow, in addition, invited the Security Council to pressure Kenya and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to arrest the at large ICTR accused.
"We remain convinced, on the basis of reported information, that Félicien Kabuga, continues to live and to carry out commercial affairs" in Kenya, the Prosecutor declared.
“It is necessary that the Security Council and the members on the UN bring their influence to bear on the government of Kenya for it to live up to its international legal obligations by arresting Félicien Kabuga and handing him over to face justice at the ICTR”, stated Jallow.
The ICTR Prosecutor also affirmed that the majority of the 18 accused still at large would be in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The Gambian magistrate proposed a broader vision of the mandate of the United Nations Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUC), which would facilitate collaboration between Kinshasa and the ICTR.
Since the beginning of the trials in 1997, the ICTR, based in Arusha, in Tanzania, has rendered 28 convictions and 5 acquittals.
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