ர்வாண்டா இனப்படுகொலைகளுக்கு காரணமான கத்தோலிக்க பாதிரியார்கள் பிரான்ஸில் கைது

ர்வாண்டா இனப்படுகொலைகளுக்கு காரணமான கத்தோலிக்க பாதிரியார்கள் பிரான்ஸில் கைது செய்யப்பட்டனர்

2 Rwanda massacre suspects, a priest and prefect, arrested in France

By Verena Von Derschau
ASSOCIATED PRESS
5:07 p.m. July 20, 2007

PARIS – Two suspects in the 1994 Rwandan genocide, a priest and a prefect, were arrested Friday in France on a warrant from an international court investigating the massacres, judicial officials said.

Wenceslas Munyeshyaka, a Roman Catholic priest in Normandy, and Laurent Bucyibaruta, a former prefect, were jailed before possible extradition to Tanzania where the U.N. International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda is based, officials said.

The officials asked not to be identified because they were not authorized to speak publicly on the matter. They said it was possible the men could be judged in France.
International arrest warrants were issued on June 21, 2006 for the men, now jailed in Paris.

The suspects were already under judicial control in France, where they are under formal investigation in a case brought by a group who escaped the mass killings. Details of the case of the two men arrested and three others were not immediately available.

Munyeshyaka was working in parishes in Gisors and the Epte Valley, on the edge of Normandy and the Paris region. Bucyibaruta, a former prefect in Gikongoro in southern Rwanda, was arrested near the town of Troyes, southeast of Paris, the officials said.

The Appeals Court investigating will decide whether the two should be extradited.

Rwanda's genocide began hours after a plane carrying President Juvenal Habyarimana, a Hutu, was mysteriously shot down as it approached the capital, Kigali, on April 6, 1994. About 500,000 people, mostly ethnic Tutsis, were massacred in 100 days of frenzied killing led by radical Hutus. The killing ended when Tutsi-led rebels under current President Paul Kagame defeated the Hutu extremists in July 1994.