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Rwandan Nyamwasa murder plot: Four guilty in South Africa - BBC News


Rwandan Nyamwasa murder plot: Four guilty in South Africa

Gen Faustin Kayumba Nyamwasa in court in Kagiso near Krugersdorp on 28 August 2014
Gen Nyamwasa was in court to hear the verdict

Four men have been found guilty of trying to murder Rwanda's former army chief, Gen Faustin Kayumba Nyamwasa, in South Africa in June 2010.

Another two suspects, including the alleged ringleader and the general's former driver, were acquitted.

The magistrate said the shooting of Gen Nyamwasa was politically motivated.

The general had gone to live in exile in South Africa several months earlier after falling out with his former ally, Rwandan President Paul Kagame.

Rwanda has denied involvement in the shooting.

The sentences will handed down on 10 September.

The BBC's Nomsa Maseko says Gen Nyamwasa, his wife and daughter were in court to hear the verdict in Kagiso near Krugersdorp, about 25km (15 miles) north-west of Johannesburg.

"The magistrate has correctly observed that the conspiracy to kill me was politically motivated," he said afterwards.

'Paid in cash'

Rwandan businessman, Pascal Kanyandekwe, alleged to have been the mastermind of the assassination, was cleared of attempting to bribe South African police as they tried to arrest him near Johannesburg's Oliver Tambo airport in July 2010.

Sady Abdou, Hemedi Dendengo Sefu, Amani Uriwane, Richard Bachisa, Hassann Nduli and Pascal Kanyandekwe, six men accused of the attempted assassination of General Nyamwasa, former Rwanda chief of staff, listen on 28 August 2014 on the first day of their sentencing at the Kagiso Magistrate Court in Krugersdorp, South Africa
Six men accused of involvement in the assassination attempt pleaded not guilty

The items found in his possession proved he knew about conspiracy to murder but there was insufficient evidence to convict him, Magistrate Stanley Mkhari said.

Gen Nyamwasa and his wife had been returning to their home in Johannesburg from a shopping trip on 19 June 2010 when the would-be assassins approached their car.

The magistrate said that prosecutors had failed to prove beyond reasonable doubt that their Rwandan driver Richard Bachisa was involved in the plot.

The judge said it was clear the four other accused had met on a number of occasions to discuss plans to kill Gen Nyamwasa and that they were paid in cash.

Magistrate Mkhari said the plot was politically motivated and emanated "from a certain group of people from Rwanda".

He said he was satisfied that Hemedi Dendengo Sefu, a Tanzanian national, was the gunman and that Amani Uriwane, a Rwandan, Hassann Mohammedi Nduli and Sady Abdou - both Tanzanians - were his accomplices.

'Lucky to be alive'

Gen Nyamwasa helped Mr Kagame come to power and was appointed army chief of staff in 1998.

They had both been in the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) rebel movement which put a stop to the country's genocide in 1994 after some 800,000 ethnic Tutsis and moderate Hutus were killed.

Mr Kagame became president in 2000.

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Faustin Kayumba Nyamwasa

  • 1994: Helped bring Paul Kagame to power and end genocide
  • 1998: Appointed army chief of staff
  • 2006: French judge accuses him of shooting down plane of Rwanda's ex-President Habyarimana in 1994, which sparked the genocide
  • 2008: Spain accuses him of links to death of Spanish nuns
  • Feb 2010: Leaves post as ambassador to India, flees to South Africa
  • Accused of links to grenade attacks in Kigali
  • June 2010: Shot and wounded in Johannesburg
  • January 2011: Sentenced in absentia to 24 years by a military court
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But their relationship soured and he was accused of undermining President Kagame, who some critics say runs a repressive regime.

Gen Nyamwasa said on Friday that he felt "lucky to be alive" - a second assassination attempt on him was foiled in 2011.

But he said his friend, Col Patrick Karegeya, a fellow exile and Rwanda's former intelligence chief, was not so fortunate.

The pair were convicted in absentia of threatening state security and went on to found the opposition Rwanda National Congress party.

Col Karegeya was strangled in mysterious circumstances in a hotel room in Johannesburg in January - no-one has yet been charged with his murder.

Rwanda's high commissioner to South Africa has denied allegations that government agents were involved.

Undated photo of Patrick Karegeya, Rwanda's former spy chief
Patrick Karegeya, Rwanda's former spy chief, was killed in mysterious circumstances in January

"The orders to kill me came from the highest office in Rwanda," Gen Nyamwasa said.

"I am not the only person whom Kagame finds as a threat. Many people from my home country had also fled to South Africa, just like me," he said.

"Every regime should be tolerant to its own people and to the opposition. I'm targeted because I'm able to talk. Talking to the press is a serious crime in Rwanda."

The Rwandan government has consistently denied trying to kill its opponents.

Thursday, 28 August 2014

[RwandaLibre] Fw: *DHR* Itangazo rigenewe abanyamakuru

 



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ITANGAZO RIGENEWE ABANYAMAKURU No
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Rishingiye ku mirambo ikomeje gutoragurwa
mu kiyaga cya Rweru,iyo mirambo ikaba
ikurikiwe n'inyerezwa ry'abaturage rimaze
gufata intera mu gihugu cyacu,
Rigarutse kandi ku ifungwa ry'abasirikare
batandukanye b'igisirikare cy'u
Rwanda,ishyaka PS Imberakuri ritangarije
abanyarwanda,inshuti,Imberakuri
by'umwihariko ibi bikurikira :
Imirambo itagira ingano ikomeje kuvanwa
mu kiyaga cya Rweru,igaragara kandi mugihe
mu gihugu cyacu hari abanyarwanda benshi
baburiwe irengero by'umwihariko
abarwanashyaka b'ishyaka ry'Imberakuri
batandukanye,ibura ry'aba banyarwanda
ryagejejwe ku nzego zose zirebwa niki kibazo
ndetse bigera naho imiryango
mpuzamahanga nka HRW ndetse n'igihugu
cy'Amerika bamaganira kure ibura
ry'abantu,aho kugirango leta ya Kigali
iberekane ahubwo yakomeje umugambi wo
gushimuta abandi.
Ntawe utwika inzu ngo ahishe umwotsi, ubu
imirambo y'abishwe mu minsi ishize iri
kureremba mu kiyaga cya rweru i
Burundi,aha ishyaka ry'Imberakuri ntirishira
amakenga leta ya Kigali ko aba bantu
bajugunywe atari abashimuswe nayo cyane
ko ibinyujije mu ijwi ry'umugenzacyaha
mukuru ACP Theos BADEGE yihutiye guhakana
ko imirambo ikomeje gutoragurwa atari
iy'abanyarwanda ngo cyane ko ntawe uturiye
Rweru wigeze ataka ko yabuze umuntu,aha
akirengagiza ko amashyaka PS
Imberakuri,Green party n'abandi
banyarwanda bagiye bataka batabariza
abantu babo baburiwe irengero.Ibi kandi
yabitangaje nta perereza na rimwe polisi y'u
Rwanda yigeze ikorera iyo mirambo maze
yemera imirambo ibiri(2) mu gihe abaturiye
ikiyaga cya Rweru bemeza imirambo mirongo
ine(40) byose bikaba byerekana ko
yarasanzwe azi ibyiyi mirambo na cyane ko
ntawe uyobewe ko leta ifite ububasha
n'ubushobozi bwo gukura imirambo aho
ishaka hose mu Rwanda maze ikaba yayita
muri Rweru .
Ishyaka ry'Imberakuri riboneyeho akanya ko
kwibutsa ko aba bakurikira baburiwe irengero
muri uyu mwaka wonyine wa 2014,
BAZIMAZIKI Damien umujyana,NIGIRENTE
James umukangurambaga mu mugi wa
Kigali,IYAKAREMYE Jean Dammascene,SIBO
RUREMA Eugene,NSABIMANA Valencs bose bo
muri PS Imberakuri, Jean Dammascene
MUNYESHYAKA umunyamabanga
mpuzabikorwa wa Green party,HIKIZIMAN
A,NIYOYITA,NZABAMWITA BARIYANGA,HABIY
AMBERE Phocas,Kamanayo
Emmanuel,Habimana Jean Paul aba kimwe
nabandi basohowe muri gereza,NDANYUZWE
Serge,MUNGANYINKA bo mu karere ka
Nyanza umurenge wa Rwabicuma,utibagiwe
n'abanyarwanda barenga ibihumbi mirongo
ine na bitandatu(46000) baburiwe irengero.
Ishyaka ry'Imberakuri rikaba ritewe
impungenge na none n'ifungwa rikomeje
kwibasira abasirikare bakuru mu gisirikare
aho bigaragara ko bikorwa kugirango
abanyarwanda bakomeze bicwe n'ubwoba
maze ubutegetsi burangajwe imbere na FPR
Inkotanyi bukomeze akazi kabwo ko
kuyobaresha abanyarwanda igitugu.
Ishyaka ry'Imberakuri rirasaba leta ya Kigali
kwerekana abanyarwanda bose yashimuse
cyangwa ikemera ku mugaragaro ko bamwe
igishakisha ikindi kiyaga izabatamo nk'uko
yabikoreye aba bose bakomeje kugaragara
mu kiyaga cya Rweru.Rirasaba kandi
kurekura abasirikare bakomeje gufungirwa
ubusa nk'uko bikomeje gukorerwa buri mu
nyarawanda wese udahuje ibitekerezo na
FPR,kuko bigaragarira buri wese ko bafunzwe
barengana.Aha abanyarwanda turasabwa
kudasubizwa inyuma nibyo leta ya Kigali ikora
itera abantu ubwoba ahubwo tugakomeza
gutsinda ubwoba maze twese hamwe
tugahagurukira kuyumvisha ibibi ikomeje
kudukorera.
Ishyaka ry'Imberakuri riributsa amahanga ko
atagakwiriye kugumya kurebera ubutegetsi
buyobowe na FPR amahano bukomeje
gukorera abanyarwanda ko ahubwo yabafasha
guhindura ingoma ya FPR Inkotanyi igiye
kumara abanyarwanda,aha kandi ishyaka
rirasaba amahanga gukora iperereza
mpuzamahanga ku mirambo ikomeje
kugaragara hirya no hino mu Rwanda cyane
cyane iyabonetse mu kiyaga cya Rweru.
Kubwa PS Imberakuri
Alexis BAKUNZIBAKE
Umuyobozi wungirije.

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[AfricaRealities] Fw: *DHR* Increasing arrests and disappearances rattle Rwandans

 



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Stefanie Duckstein - dw.de, August 28, 2014


Fear is growing in Rwanda as top members of the military are arrested and ordinary people disappear. President Kagame appears to be determined to stifle all opposition. Human rights organizations are alarmed.


What is new about this is that it is no longer just supporters of the opposition who find themselves targeted by police, but also people considered to be allies of President Kagame. "Support for him in his own ranks is disappearing rapidly," Gerd Hankel, an expert in international law at the Hamburg Institute for Social Research, said in an interview with DW. "Kagame is highly controversial. What was promised to the Rwandans and to his own close circle, has not been fulfilled. People are waiting for clear signs of progress."

"We have been closely observing the situation experienced by human rights activists, members of the opposition and also the Rwandan media for several years," said Gesinde Ames from the Ecumenical Network for Central Africa, an association of German church organizations. "There are no longer any free media in Rwanda," Ames said. "There is a state organ which is under strict control. And it is the same with opposition movements." Any attempts to counter Kagame by establishing new political parties were quickly stifled, with "party leaders arrested and sentenced to life imprisonment," Ames told DW.

Minister for Internal Security Sheik Mussa Harerimana plays down the case. "These are just accusations intended to tarnish the government's reputation. People don't just disappear here," he told DW. "But there are people who are in prison as the result of criminal activities. While they are in detention awaiting trial, it seems that relatives claim they have disappeared."
US-based human rights watchdog Human Rights Watch (HRW) sees this differently. A recent report says that dozens of Rwandans have gone missing since March this year. HRW accuses the Rwandan army and police of removing critics of the Kagame regime.

For years observers have criticized moves to suppress any opposition and increasing acts of intimidation. International law expert Hankel says recent events show this has clearly intensified. According to Hankel, Kagame's enemies are no longer to be found abroad, such as the Rwandan Hutu FDLR militia (Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda), but close to Kagame himself. "There is a large group of politicians who are not happy with the course Kagame is taking but who have no opportunity of articulating this in public. And so conspiratorial groups are created."

Gesine Ames from the Ecumenical Network for Central Africa calls for more straight talking from Europe and from Germany in particular. There is a need for "more discussions between Rwanda and donor nations, especially concerning the human rights situation," she said. "Human rights are universal and Rwanda must also respect them. The international community has an obligation to remind Rwanda of this."





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ATROCITIES IN RWANDA, 2014


ATROCITIES IN RWANDA, 2014

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The Kagame regime began this year by assassinating Patrick Karegeya in South Africa. It moved on to "disappearing" citizens all over the nation, and then there were strange fires that burned down prisons. Now there are arrests of leading regime generals and other figures as the totalitarian regime eats its own, and there are also bodies turning up on a lake in Burundi. This story, translated from French, says:
In recent days corpses wrapped in plastic bags are found floating on the lake Rweru on the border between Burundi and Rwanda in the province Muyinga.
More than 40 bodies floating in the lake town Rweru Giteranyi were seen and counted from the month of July by the fishermen, as confirmed by the local administration and police. This week, these fishermen accompanied by a unit of the Navy, saw two bodies on the mouth of the Kagera. It was a woman without clothes and a man wrapped in a bag. One of the dead was identified by Rwandan fishermen, they immediately rushed to repatriate the dead body.
The report goes on to says that Burundi had not reported any disappeared, and that Burundians:
…indicate that such carcasses are thrown into the river Akagara the Rwandan side, that comes pouring into the lake Rweru: "In the neighborhood, we deplore any loss, unless they are brought from other regions and thrown in the lake, "they say.
The lake in question borders Rwanda and Burundi, as you can see from this map:
Lake Rugwero
Lake Rugwero with Rwanda on the North
The case made headlines Burundian newspapers for two days: the fishermen said they saw dozens of bodies floating on the Rweru Lake in northeastern Burundi, on the border with Rwanda. They are bodies of men, women and youth, some tied up.
Fishermen Lake Rweru say they would have seen since early July between six and forty bodies floating in the waters of the lake, located in the northeastern Burundi. Several private radio stations in Bujumbura, the alarm was given it a week ago.
Contacted by RFI yesterday, Sunday, the representative of the fishermen of the town Giteranyi shoreline of the lake, said he went near the mouth of the Kagera River with soldiers from the Burundian Navy. They then discovered there two bodies, one still wrapped in a big burlap bag. " We unfortunately could not bring them back to the mainland because the bodies were in an advanced state of decomposition , "said the representative of the fishermen. They then drifted the body along with the current like other fishermen did with the body they discovered earlier.
… Fishermen are, claim that these bodies would be carried by the Kagera River which originates in neighboring Rwanda. Prudente, the Burundian government would not confirm or deny.
There have been widespread disappearances, such as this:
Rwandan opposition politician Damascene Munyeshyaka, who went missing on June 27, is just one in a growing list of people who have not been heard of over the past few months and who rights activists believe have been forcibly disappeared.
Munyeshyaka, the organisational secretary of the Democratic Green Party, was at a meeting in the eastern district of Bugesera, when he received a phone call.
The caller said he had an urgent message to deliver, according to the party. Munyeshyaka didn't know the caller but left to meet him. He has not been seen since.
And there are mass arrests of high ranking regime members, in moves reminiscent of purges after the French Revolution. See hereherehere, and here.
Finally, look at this appalling picture from inside a Rwandan prison:
Gitarama Prison
Prisoners tortured in Rwandan prisons.
This article, whose truth I cannot verify,1 says:
To understand how furious and systematic Hutus extermination is, Tutsis RPF regime has nowadays chosen a plan to blaze prisons and more than thirty thousand (30,000) Hutus perished in this process of prisons blaze where they were abducting prisoners to massacre in name of transfers to other prisons so that other fellow prisoners cannot question what happening and try to claim. The recent prisons set on fire are two prisons of Muhanga central prison in Gitarama and Nyakiriba prison in Rubavu (Gisenyi) respectively on 5 June 2014 and 7 July 2014, i e within one month. This happened following 1 or 2 months more than sixteen thousand (16,000) Hutus massacred in Northern West province in Nyabihu district and the RPF regime said they don't know their whereabouts, and simply said that they disappeared.
The above picture is Muhanga prison in Gitarama set on fire on 5 June 2014 and this happen alongside the slow systematic massacres of these Hutus prisoners where they are daily beaten, killed abducted, starved and poisoned. More than 80% of Hutus who terminated their sentence when they come out for normal life, consequently they cannot pass 1 or 2 years alive, they die.2
Conditions in the open-air prison that is Rwanda are horrible,  and yet we continue to only see the sanitized, mission-trip version of reality in PEAR USA publications. Speaking of another appalling situation, that of Christians in Iraq, PEAR Bishop Breedlove says:
The silence of the US and Canadian media and government is unconscionable, and we need to call them to account and ask for a change of behavior. "Never Silent" is part of our story. We need to bring that legacy to this critical issue happening right now. We must never be silent while Christians are slaughtered for nothing more than being Christians.
He is right for once, and yet the hypocrisy is more than a little thick given the outrages in Rwanda that have been happening for two decades now, with the increasing complicity of Westerners, who choose to see no evil and hear no evil.
rwaje   dictator
Archbishop Rwaje and Paul Kagame
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  1. See this story for confirmation. 
  2. The 30,000 number comes from stories like this:
    Kigali — Some 30.000 Rwandans sentenced to community service for their role in the 1994 genocide have disappeared, according to the Rwandan prison authorities. Community service was introduced under a Rwandan law as an alternative to prison for certain categories of genocide perpetrator who confessed. One of the goals was to reduce overcrowding in the country's jails.
    The semi-traditional village courts or gacaca (pronounced gatchatcha) that tried most genocide suspects had, by the time they closed in June 2012, sentenced 84,896 people to community service, according to the authorities.
    A report by the Rwandan prison service says only 53,366 of these turned up in the camps where they were to serve their alternative sentence. The prison service says it does not know where they are. "This is a matter of great concern for us," prison service director Paul Rwarakabije told Hirondelle.
    "It is extremely worrying for the survivors," says Naphtal Ahishakiye, secretary general of the main survivors'organization Ibuka.
    According to the same report, out of the 53,366 who presented themselves for community service, 46,270 have served their sentence, 1,996 escaped during community service and 340 have died natural deaths.
    During community service, convicts help with public works such as building roads, bridges, public schools, orphanages and houses for the elderly. 


[RwandaLibre] ATROCITIES IN RWANDA, 2014

 


The Kagame regime began this year by assassinating Patrick Karegeya in South Africa. It moved on to "disappearing" citizens all over the nation, and then there were strange fires that burned down prisons. Now there are arrests of leading regime generals and other figures as the totalitarian regime eats its own, and there are also bodies turning up on a lake in Burundi. This story, translated from French, says:
In recent days corpses wrapped in plastic bags are found floating on the lake Rweru on the border between Burundi and Rwanda in the province Muyinga.
More than 40 bodies floating in the lake town Rweru Giteranyi were seen and counted from the month of July by the fishermen, as confirmed by the local administration and police. This week, these fishermen accompanied by a unit of the Navy, saw two bodies on the mouth of the Kagera. It was a woman without clothes and a man wrapped in a bag. One of the dead was identified by Rwandan fishermen, they immediately rushed to repatriate the dead body.
The report goes on to says that Burundi had not reported any disappeared, and that Burundians:
…indicate that such carcasses are thrown into the river Akagara the Rwandan side, that comes pouring into the lake Rweru: "In the neighborhood, we deplore any loss, unless they are brought from other regions and thrown in the lake, "they say.
The lake in question borders Rwanda and Burundi, as you can see from this map:
Lake Rugwero
Lake Rugwero with Rwanda on the North
The case made headlines Burundian newspapers for two days: the fishermen said they saw dozens of bodies floating on the Rweru Lake in northeastern Burundi, on the border with Rwanda. They are bodies of men, women and youth, some tied up.
Fishermen Lake Rweru say they would have seen since early July between six and forty bodies floating in the waters of the lake, located in the northeastern Burundi. Several private radio stations in Bujumbura, the alarm was given it a week ago.
Contacted by RFI yesterday, Sunday, the representative of the fishermen of the town Giteranyi shoreline of the lake, said he went near the mouth of the Kagera River with soldiers from the Burundian Navy. They then discovered there two bodies, one still wrapped in a big burlap bag. " We unfortunately could not bring them back to the mainland because the bodies were in an advanced state of decomposition , "said the representative of the fishermen. They then drifted the body along with the current like other fishermen did with the body they discovered earlier.
… Fishermen are, claim that these bodies would be carried by the Kagera River which originates in neighboring Rwanda. Prudente, the Burundian government would not confirm or deny.
There have been widespread disappearances, such as this:
Rwandan opposition politician Damascene Munyeshyaka, who went missing on June 27, is just one in a growing list of people who have not been heard of over the past few months and who rights activists believe have been forcibly disappeared.
Munyeshyaka, the organisational secretary of the Democratic Green Party, was at a meeting in the eastern district of Bugesera, when he received a phone call.
The caller said he had an urgent message to deliver, according to the party. Munyeshyaka didn't know the caller but left to meet him. He has not been seen since.
And there are mass arrests of high ranking regime members, in moves reminiscent of purges after the French Revolution. See hereherehere, and here.
Finally, look at this appalling picture from inside a Rwandan prison:
Gitarama Prison
Prisoners tortured in Rwandan prisons.
This article, whose truth I cannot verify,1 says:
To understand how furious and systematic Hutus extermination is, Tutsis RPF regime has nowadays chosen a plan to blaze prisons and more than thirty thousand (30,000) Hutus perished in this process of prisons blaze where they were abducting prisoners to massacre in name of transfers to other prisons so that other fellow prisoners cannot question what happening and try to claim. The recent prisons set on fire are two prisons of Muhanga central prison in Gitarama and Nyakiriba prison in Rubavu (Gisenyi) respectively on 5 June 2014 and 7 July 2014, i e within one month. This happened following 1 or 2 months more than sixteen thousand (16,000) Hutus massacred in Northern West province in Nyabihu district and the RPF regime said they don't know their whereabouts, and simply said that they disappeared.
The above picture is Muhanga prison in Gitarama set on fire on 5 June 2014 and this happen alongside the slow systematic massacres of these Hutus prisoners where they are daily beaten, killed abducted, starved and poisoned. More than 80% of Hutus who terminated their sentence when they come out for normal life, consequently they cannot pass 1 or 2 years alive, they die.2
Conditions in the open-air prison that is Rwanda are horrible,  and yet we continue to only see the sanitized, mission-trip version of reality in PEAR USA publications. Speaking of another appalling situation, that of Christians in Iraq, PEAR Bishop Breedlove says:
The silence of the US and Canadian media and government is unconscionable, and we need to call them to account and ask for a change of behavior. "Never Silent" is part of our story. We need to bring that legacy to this critical issue happening right now. We must never be silent while Christians are slaughtered for nothing more than being Christians.
He is right for once, and yet the hypocrisy is more than a little thick given the outrages in Rwanda that have been happening for two decades now, with the increasing complicity of Westerners, who choose to see no evil and hear no evil.
rwaje   dictator
Archbishop Rwaje and Paul Kagame
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  1. See this story for confirmation. 
  2. The 30,000 number comes from stories like this:
    Kigali — Some 30.000 Rwandans sentenced to community service for their role in the 1994 genocide have disappeared, according to the Rwandan prison authorities. Community service was introduced under a Rwandan law as an alternative to prison for certain categories of genocide perpetrator who confessed. One of the goals was to reduce overcrowding in the country's jails.
    The semi-traditional village courts or gacaca (pronounced gatchatcha) that tried most genocide suspects had, by the time they closed in June 2012, sentenced 84,896 people to community service, according to the authorities.
    A report by the Rwandan prison service says only 53,366 of these turned up in the camps where they were to serve their alternative sentence. The prison service says it does not know where they are. "This is a matter of great concern for us," prison service director Paul Rwarakabije told Hirondelle.
    "It is extremely worrying for the survivors," says Naphtal Ahishakiye, secretary general of the main survivors'organization Ibuka.
    According to the same report, out of the 53,366 who presented themselves for community service, 46,270 have served their sentence, 1,996 escaped during community service and 340 have died natural deaths.
    During community service, convicts help with public works such as building roads, bridges, public schools, orphanages and houses for the elderly. 


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-“The root cause of the Rwandan tragedy of 1994 is the long and past historical ethnic dominance of one minority ethnic group to the other majority ethnic group. Ignoring this reality is giving a black cheque for the Rwandan people’s future and deepening resentment, hostility and hatred between the two groups.”

-« Ce dont j’ai le plus peur, c’est des gens qui croient que, du jour au lendemain, on peut prendre une société, lui tordre le cou et en faire une autre ».

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