France deports Rwandan genocide suspect

by amyjudd | June 5, 2008 at 06:09 pm | 123 views | add comment | 0 recommendations

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France deported a Rwandan genocide suspect today to the UN war crimes tribunal based in Tanzania.
I say, good for them, although it seems strange to me that the suspect had a Tutsi wife, and yet he was deported for taking part in the killing of about 25,000 Tutsis.

Dominique Ntawukuriryayo, a former regional governor, was arrested in southern France last year.

Prosecutors accuse him of taking part in the massacre of up to 25,000 Tutsis over a five-day period in April 1994.

Mr Ntawukuriryayo, 65, has denied the charges. He has French residency papers, and had lived in the town of Carcassonne since 1999.

He is the third fugitive wanted by the tribunal to be arrested in France.

Mr Ntawukuriryayo, born in 1942, was a sub-prefect in the area of Gisagara at the time of the killings in Kabuye Hill.

The AFP news agency reports that he was living in France with his Tutsi wife.

Since 1997 the tribunal has convicted 30 ringleaders of the genocide and acquitted five people.

Some 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus were killed during the 100-day massacre in 1994.