The Rwandan government has completed a 4.5 million US dollar prison center
ready to receive genocide suspect involved in the 1994 genocide, an official
said in Kigali Saturday.
Rwanda secretary general in the Internal Security Ministry, Joseph Mutaboba
said that the UN tribunal detention center will receive detainees, whose
dossiers have or will be handed over to Rwandan government.
"We are very ready to receive those suspects from ICTR (UN International
Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda) and this is why we have been here to officially
open this prison. This is a great step on the national level and this is going
to help us to collaborate better with the ICTR," Mutaboba said.
The prison has a capacity of receiving 2,500 inmates.
He said the completion of the prison would accelerate transfer of more
dossiers from the ICTR to the Rwanda judiciary. "It increases the possibility
of prosecuting these suspects from within the country," he added.
The launching of the prison, whose construction was funded by the
government of Holland was inaugurated early this week.
Just a week ago the ICTR Chief Prosecutor Abubaker Jallow ended a one-week
working visit in Rwanda.
Currently, fifteen files have been handed to the Rwandan judiciary, some
belonging to suspects that are still at large.
Source: Xinhua