-Caveat Lector-
Another Catholic "martyr," like the Nazi collaborator the Pope recently
honored?
Bishop's Arrest Upsets Vatican
.c The Associated Press
VATICAN CITY (AP) -- The arrest of a bishop accused of having a role in
Rwanda's 1994 genocide is ``an act of extreme gravity,'' the Vatican said
Thursday.
In its first comment since the arrest Wednesday of Bishop Augustin Misago,
the Vatican expressed the hope that the prelate's ``innocence will be rapidly
proved.''
Justice Minister Jean de Dieu Mucyo said in Rwanda that the bishop was being
held in ``preventive detention'' until authorities decide whether to try him
in Kigali or in his diocese of Gikongoro, in southern Rwanda.
He is accused of having a role in the genocide that killed more than 500,000
minority Tutsis and politically moderate Hutus.
``The arrest of a bishop is an act of extreme gravity that not only wounds
the church in Rwanda but the entire Catholic church,'' said Vatican spokesman
Joaquin Navarro-Valls.
Misago is the highest-ranking church official to be arrested on genocide
charges. So far, 19 Rwandan priests have been jailed on suspicion of aiding
the killings, which ended in July 1994 when the Tutsi-led Rwandan Patriotic
Front won power and ousted the extremist Hutu government.
A total of 125,000 people have been jailed on suspicion of taking part in the
genocide, and more than 1,000 have been tried.
Relations between the government and the Catholic church have been tense.
Groups of genocide survivors have demanded a public apology from the Catholic
clergy for the killings in churches and missionary-run schools, where
thousands of Tutsis were hacked and burned to death by Hutu soldiers and
militiamen, often with the alleged complicity of the priests.
Rwandan President Pasteur Bizimungu and Tutsi survivors of the massacres in
Gikongoro Prefecture said Misago refused shelter to Tutsis trying to escape
death from Hutu mobs.
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