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Rwanda: ICTR Defence Lawyers Want Kagame to Be Prosecuted for War Crimes
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Hirondelle News Agency (Lausanne)
November 21, 2006
Posted to the web November 22, 2006
Arusha
Following the investigation conducted by Judge Jean-Louis Bruguière, the
defence lawyers association (ADAD) at the International Criminal Tribunal for
Rwanda (ICTR) asked the Tribunal on Tuesday afternoon for the President of
Rwanda Paul Kagame to be prosecuted for war crimes.
Bruguière's investigation was transmitted last Friday to the public
prosecutor. The French judge notably suggests that a demand concerning the
sitting president should be filed with the United Nations. Paul Kagame is said
to have initiated the attack that led to the death of the President of Rwanda
and the President of Burunidi, Juvenal Habyarimana and Cyprien Ntaryamira.
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document.write(""); According to the defence attorneys, the ICTR has
been gathering evidences pertaining to the Rwandan president's involvement in
the attack against the plane since 1997 but these proofs have been denied by
Louise Harbour, the prosecutor at the time. The ADAD consequently calls on the
prosecutor to immediately start legal proceedings against Mr. Kagame or it will
ask the president of the tribunal to deliver him a compliance mandate.
Peter Erlinder, the ADAD's president, added that other evidences accusing
Paul Kagame have also been presented before the ICTR in « Militaries I », the
trial of the most important military officials of the regime formerly in power
and in which Mr. Erlinder pleads.
One of the leaders of the ADAD, Mr. John Philpot, also declared that Mr.
Bruguière's investigation seemed to be very « rigorous » and that the French
magistrate had « searched for evidences before pressing charges » as opposed to
the ICTR's prosecutor who, according to John Philpot, « takes criminal actions
before gathering evidences ».
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