Arusha, 22 June 2007 (FH) - The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda
\n(ICTR) issued Thursday arrest warrants against Father Wenceslas
\nMunyeshyaka and against the former prefect of Gikongoro Laurent
\nBucyibaruta, exiled in France, it was learned Friday from a legal sources
\nat the ICTR.
\nAt the beginning of the week, transfer requests were filed in connection
\nwith these two men whose indictments have been under seal since 2005. The
\nFrench legal authorities accepted, at the request of the Prosecutor of the
\nICTR, to try them. A Chamber of the ICTR, which will be designated by the
\nPresident, must, however, give its consent. <\/p>\n
These transfers are within the framework of the completion strategy of the
\nICTR, which must finish its first instance trials by 31 December 2008.
\nSince its creation, the ICTR has tried 33 people, 28 are in the course of
\njudgment, and 10 should be transferred or quickly tried. <\/p>\n
Wenceslas Munyeshyeka, who was the vicar of the principal parish of
\nKigali, is accused of genocide, rape, murder and extermination. Laurent
\nBucyibaruta is accused of genocide, incitement, complicity to
\nextermination, murder and rape constituting a crime against humanity. <\/p>\n
They were both part, as well as two other exiled Rwandan accused, of the
\nobject of a legal instruction in France, grouped together in Paris and in
\nthe hands of an investigating judge.<\/p>\n
PB\/MM<\/p>\n
\u00a9 Hirondelle News Agency<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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