Netters,
It does appear that it is Kagame and some of his sycophants
who are in a state of panic. Indeed why should Kagame
fear the courts of Justice? ( this is what it seems after reading
the barrage below?
I totally and completely agree with the french judge Jean-Louis Bruguiere
insistance that Kagame should stand trial for committing crimes
against Humanity.
The move by Bruguiere to sign an international arrest warrants
for nine of Mr Kagame's close aides, must be applauded by all peace and
justice loving members of the International Commuinty.
Indeed, I am beggining to like this French Judge . The man has guts
and is very fair in his despensation of Justice, to say the least.
Political observers will point out that Justice Bruguiere's move should serve
as
a warning to people like Kazini mavi Yaa Kuku, Otafiire, Salem Saleh,
Museveni Kaguta, Amanya Mbabazi, Mwezi, TUMUTUNDE and a whole bunch of those
NRM sycophants who over the past twenty years have been committing genocide in
Northern and Eastern Uganda.
When it come to the prosecution ofthese NRM goons, the utterences of Museveni
and other NRM sycophants like salem saleh ,can serve as the best evidence.. all
a whould be prosecutor have to do is to conduct some research in the archives
of THE NEW VISION and THE MONITOR .
Matek
Rwanda fury at Kagame trial call
Mr Kagame has always accused France over the genocide
Rwanda has angrily rejected calls by a French judge for President Paul Kagame
to stand trial over the killing of his predecessor, which sparked genocide.
Rwanda's foreign minister said France was trying to cover up its own complicity
in the 1994 killings of some 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus. Lawyers
defending those accused of genocide at a UN court have backed the idea of
putting Mr Kagame on trial. After Juvenal Habyarimana's plane was shot down,
the killings began. "The French are trying to appease their conscience for
their role in the genocide and are now trying to find someone else to hold
responsible for their acts here," Foreign Affairs Minister Charles Murigande
told Reuters news agency. These are political games rather
than a judicial process
Tharcisse Karugarama
Profile: Paul Kagame
"They have panicked because they know their acts during the genocide were going
to be exposed to the rest of the world in the on-going probe commission here,"
he said. A hearing began in the Rwandan capital, Kigali, last month into
allegations of French involvement in the killings. French legal authorities
are investigating Habyarimana's death because his aircraft had a French crew.
Implications Judge Jean-Louis Bruguiere is expected to sign international
arrest warrants for nine of Mr Kagame's close aides in the coming days. Under
French law, a warrant cannot be issued for Mr Kagame because he has immunity as
a head of state. Some 800,000 people were killed in the genocide
But the judge said Mr Kagame should stand trial at the International Criminal
Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), set up to try those responsible for the genocide.
The ICTR defence lawyers said they had asked the court's prosecutor-general to
prepare charges against Mr Kagame and arrest him. The lawyers said Mr Kagame
would not enjoy immunity if charged by the tribunal. The BBC's Fergal Keane
says if the judge's claims prove true, the legal and moral implications would
be devastating. Justice Minister Tharcisse Karugarama described the French
judge's call as "political games rather than a judicial process". Claim and
counter-claim Rwanda's two most senior generals - armed forces chief James
Kabarebe and army chief-of-staff Charles Kayonga - are among the nine aides
suspected of involvement in the downing of the plane carrying Habyarimana and
his Burundi counterpart Cyprien Ntaryamira on 6 April 1994. Hutu militias
accused Mr Kagame's then rebel Tutsi-dominated Rwandan
Patriotic Front (RPF) of killing the president, and started massacring Tutsis
across the country. Mr Kagame has always accused Hutu extremists of killing
Habyarimana, a moderate Hutu, in order to provide a pretext for the genocide.
The killings ended 100 days later when the RPF took power. The RPF says
France helped train some of the soldiers who carried out the genocide. The
ICTR has convicted 26 people and acquitted five. All of those charged in the
ICTR have had links to the Hutu militias, known as the Interahamwe. The
Tanzania-based court is due to be disbanded in 2008.
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