\nArusha, 12 June 2008 (FH) - The Rwandan military Wednesday arrested four soldiers, including a Brigadier General, for alleged killings of 13 clergymen during the 1994 genocide, according to the spokesman of the Rwanda army. However, it was not clear where in Rwanda the soldiers were arrested.\n<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
\nA statement availed to independent Hirondelle Agency by the army's spokesman, Major Jill Rutaremara, said that "the suspects will appear in court soon."\n<\/p>\n
\nThe arrested are Brigadier-General Wilson Gumisiriza, Major Wilson Ukwishaka, Captain John Butera and Captain (retired) Dieudonne Rukeba.\n<\/p>\n
\nAmong the 13 killed clergymen included Archbishop of Kigali Vincent Nsengiyumva, Bishop of Byumba Joseph Ruzindana and Bishop of Kabgayi, Thadee Nsengiyumya, who was also then President of the Conference of Catholic Bishops of Rwanda.\n<\/p>\n
\nThe arrests follow last week's disclosure by the Prosecutor of International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), Justice Hassan Jallow, before the UN Security Council that some soldiers of the Rwanda Patriotic Front (RPF) had committed atrocities during the genocide. The UN has estimated that about 800,000 ethnic Tutsis and moderate Hutus were killed in the April-July slaughter.\n<\/p>\n
\n"It has been established that on 5 June, 1994, RPF soldiers had killed 13 clergymen and two other civilians at Gitarama [central Rwanda]", Mr Jallow told the UN when tabling his six-monthly report of the Court's exit strategy.\n<\/p>\n
\nRPF is currently in power under President Paul Kagame.\n<\/p>\n
\nJustice Jallow added that some of the perpetrators are reportedly to have died, while others are serving within the Rwanda army.\n<\/p>\n
\nRwanda shared concurrent jurisdiction with the tribunal over such offences and the ICTR will monitor the trial, he said.\n<\/p>\n
\nJustice Jallow's predecessor, Swiss Carla Del Ponte, was the first to disclose over the RPF investigations during her tenure as the ICTR prosecutor between 1999 and 2003.\n<\/p>\n
\nThe Rwandan government in the past has been furious over the investigations and even reached a boiling point by refusing to co-operate with the UN tribunal and once even denied entry visa to Carla Del Ponte.\n<\/p>\n
\nSC\n<\/p>\n
\n© Hirondelle News Agency<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Arusha, 12 June 2008 (FH) - The Rwandan military Wednesday arrested four soldiers, including a Brigadier General, for alleged killings of 13 clergymen during the 1994 genocide, according to the spokesman of the Rwanda army. However, it was not clear where in Rwanda the soldiers were arrested.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"ji_location":[],"class_list":["post-20267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hirondellenews"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n