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Subj: [Cercle] Enos Kagaba INS
Hearing
Date: 2/1/2003 8:50:40 PM Central Standard Time From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent from the Internet (Details) The Enos Kagaba INS hearing . In January 2003, Mr. Zephaniah Byilingiro posted on different websites the case of Enos Kagaba who is currently in jail of SHERBURNE County in Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota. I want to give you a briefing about the INS hearing for Enos Kagaba, a former Deputy Nursing School Director in Mugonero, Kibuye, which was held in Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota in mid-January of 2003. The hearings were closed to the public and I received the information outside the hearing so my knowledge is based on the account of the some participants. The Immigration and Naturalization Service brought six witnesses from Rwanda, a team coordinated by the Deputy General Prosecutor, Emmanuel Rukangira, who was also in Minnesota, apparently hidden behind the windows of the court. Here are the names of the testimonies: Samuel Ndagijimana, Manasse Bimenyimana, Jerson Nshimyumukiza, Vincent Musabyimfura, Elam Rutaganda and Gerard Rubayiza Bandora. �I knew that some of them had testified previously in cases before the ICTR in Arusha and were known as trained for that kind of job�, said one of the participants. The six persons told stories that were significantly different from accounts they had given in previous statements and in testimony. Whereas they had previously not spoken of Enos or had only mentioned his name, in their INS testimonies they made Enos Kagaba a central and leading figure. In cross-examination the witnesses were uncomfortable and vague, apparently bothered by the realization that Mr. Kagaba's counsel had a good idea of they were and what they had previously said. One of the six was not called to testify, even though he had been flown all the way to the U.S. to give evidence. The defense assumes the INS was skeptical about what he had told them. The INS as an expert called Ms Alison DesForges of Human Rights Watch. Significantly for the defense Ms DesForges acknowledged that the present Kigali regime has abducted and murdered some of its political opponents. Apparently she gave the example of Seth Sendashonga as one who had been killed on the orders of Kigali. She also agreed that there are groups in Rwanda that provide false testimony in court cases for political reasons. Further, she had interviewed 10 witnesses in the Mugunero area and none of them had mentioned Enos Kagaba. One matter spoken of by Alison was the May 3, 1994 meeting in Kibuye town addressed by Prime Minister Jean Kambanda. She described the intent of the meeting as promotion of genocide though, as you know, there was nothing in the speech of Kambanda that said go and kill Tutsi. She suggested that if someone attended that meeting he or she should be suspected. Because the testimony of the 5 Rwandans and Ms DesForges took up all the time previously scheduled by the judge there will be a second phase to the INS hearing that is scheduled to begin on February 17, 2003. There is a hope to have useful evidence and witness ready for that occasion. I understood that the judge intends to allow telephonic testimony, something I would like to tell to you all for your intervention to explain what you know about that person. I hope this gives you some idea of how the Enos Kagaba matter is proceeding and I would like to thank personally Human Rights Watch through Alison DesForges for her intervention during the hearing and thanks to Mr. Zephaniah Byilingiro for making available to all that kind of information. Please, Mr. Zephaniah, do the same. Stella Kayitesi. The Mulindwas
communication group
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