14.07.11 - RWANDA/NETHERLANDS - DUTCH INVESTIGATE TWENTY GENOCIDE SUSPECTS CASES IN RWANDA

Kigali, July 14, 2011 (FH) - A Dutch rogatory commission (sent at the Prosecutor's request) has been in Kigali for a week investigating the cases of twenty genocide suspects currently living in the Netherlands.

According to John-Bosco Siboyintore, the acting head of the Rwandan Genocide Fugitive Tracking Unit (GFTU), "a team of five investigators, all of them Dutch policemen, are on the ground to hear witnesses in about twenty cases".

In an interview with Hirondelle News Agency, he explained that Rwanda referred to Dutch authorities in 2008 the files of 20 genocide suspects, including one woman, Yvonne Basebya, the spouse of a former parliamentarian before 1994. She is charged with genocide, incitement to commit genocide, complicity of genocide notably for establishing a list of Tutsis to be killed in Gikondo, her neighborohood in Kigali.

Yvonne Basebya was sentenced in 2007 to life in jail in absentia by a gacaca court.

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© Hirondelle News Agency

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