Posted on 11/20/2006 1:12:50 PM PST by NormsRevenge
PARIS (AFP) - A French judge recommended that Rwandan President Paul Kagame should face an international war crimes court over his alleged involvement in the death of a former Rwandan leader that sparked the 1994 genocide, court sources said.
Jean-Louis Bruguiere, the judge leading a probe into the attack on a plane carrying the then president Juvenal Habyarimana, said Kagame should face charges at the international war crimes court for Rwanda in Tanzania.
The attack on the plane carrying Habyarimana, an ethnic Hutu, in April 1994 ignited ethnic tensions in the country, sparking a genocide in which Hutu extremists slaughtered some 800,000 people, mainly minority Tutsis and moderate Hutus.
The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda in Tanzania is currently hearing the case of several former high-ranking Rwandan army officers accused of genocide during the 100 days of carnage that followed.
French courts also called Monday for international arrest warrants to be served against nine of Kagame's aides in relation to the plane attack, including James Kabarebe, or Kabare, a senior officer in the Rwandan army.
Formed in late 1994, the court has so far tried 31 suspects, convicting 26 and acquitting five. Twenty-five trials are now in progress, with 12 awaiting their start.
French prosecutors will now consider Bruguiere's recommendations.
A French judge recommended that Rwandan President Paul Kagame, pictured May 2006, should face an international war crimes court over his alleged involvement in the death of a former Rwandan leader that sparked the 1994 genocide, court sources said.(AFP/File/Mandel Ngan)
I recommend the current French government stand trial for anti-semitism and accessory to murder. Hundreds of Jews in France have been attacked and some murdered as the French government stands by and does nothing.
I'd be interested to know what evidence the judge has uncovered.
Gee that was only 12 years ago. I like swift justice.
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