France: une justice douteuse!
La France s'est engagé dans un bras de fer avec le petit pays du Rwanda dans lequel elle risque de perdre ses plumes.
En 2006 la France a émis un mandat d'arrêt a l'encontre de Rose Kabuye pour "sa participation" dans l'attentat qui a couté la vie au président Rwandais de l'époque, Juvel Habyarimana, et a deux pilotes Français.
Kabuye a la fonction de chef du protocole de l'actuel président Rwandais Paul Kagame.
L'arrestation par la police Allemande et son extradition vers la France est comme un chiffon rouge pour les Rwandais.
La réaction de Paul Kagame est" c'est pas Rose Kabuye qui est arrêté, c'est tout le Rwanda".
Ce qu'il dit est bien sur que la France n'a aucun droit d'arrêter un fonctionnaire haut placé, surtout avec le rôle que la France a eu dans le génocide du peuple Tutsi.
C'est la France qui a planifié le génocide et fournie les armes a l'armé du gouvernement du régime Hutus. La France a participé militairement au coté des forces du régime déchue au génocide du peuple Tutsi. Et quand le regime hutu commencé a bousculer, la France s'est empressé de les mettre a l'abri d'un jugement.
Mais cela ne s'arrête pas la. Le Rwanda a commencé sa propre enquête sur le rôle de la France dans le génocide, elle cite 33 responsables politique et militaires, qu'elle va inculper . Ce sont eux qui croient que Rose Kabuye s'est volontairement laissée arrêté pour que son avocat puisse exiger que tout les documents sur cette tragédie lui soient livrés.Des documents qui peuvent êtres utilisés a l'encontre des anciens premiers ministres Alain Jupe, Dominique de Vilpin et le ministre des affaires étrangères Hubert Vedrine
France charges Rwanda aide amid Kigali protests
PARIS (AFP) – French judicial officials on Wednesday charged a longtime comrade-in-arms of Rwanda's president over an assassination in the run-up to the 1994 genocide, as anti-European protests unfolded in Kigali.
Germany extradited Rose Kabuye, a former guerrilla leader who now serves as chief of protocol to President Paul Kagame, 10 days after police acting on a French warrant arrested her as she arrived at Frankfurt airport.
French officials took charge of her in Frankfurt, and she was flown to Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris aboard an Air France jet.
From there she was transferred to the main law courts in Paris to appear before anti-terrorism investigating magistrate Marc Trevidic, Kabuye's lawyer Bernard Maingain told AFP.
Judicial officials later confirmed Kabuye was put under judicial investigation -- in effect, charged -- with "complicity in murder in relation to terrorism".
French investigators suspect Kabuye, 47, of involvement in the downing of an executive jet that killed presidents Juvenal Habyarimana of Rwanda and Cyprien Ntaryamira of Burundi and two French pilots on April 6, 1994.
Habyarimana's ethnic Hutu supporters went on the rampage following the attack, slaughtering 800,000 ethnic Tutsi and moderate Hutu men, women and children in a 100-day orgy of bloodletting.
French investigators accuse Kagame's Tutsi rebels of attacking the Falcon 500 jet, although other observers have speculated that Hutu hardliners killed their own president to serve as a pretext for the subsequent killings.
Kabuye was a senior military leader during Kagame's successful war to drive out the genocidal Hutu militias, and the arrest of his trusted lieutenant has cast a fresh chill on already frosty ties with France.
Rwanda severed diplomatic relations with Paris in 2006 after a French anti-terrorism judge issued their first arrest warrants over the case.
Kagame accuses France of having actively supported the Hutu militias, and the legal dispute has stymied attempts by both governments to re-establish friendly ties 14 years after the massacre.
He has accused Europe of persecuting the genocide's survivors instead of hunting its perpetrators, some of whom are said to be living in Europe.
Large numbers are also believed to be involved in unrest currently shaking neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo.
"It is not only Rose who is in the dock, it is Rwanda that is in the dock," Kagame said on Monday.
Her arrest led to three days of demonstrations in Rwanda and on Wednesday tens of thousands of people again took to the streets of Kigali to vent their anger.
Large numbers were seen by an AFP correspondent converging on the German embassy -- Rwanda expelled the German ambassador after Kabuye's arrest -- and the local offices of German broadcaster Deutsche Welle.
"Mrs Kabuye is calm. She's a real fighter. You must know she faced other battles. She spent years in the bush after her family was expelled from Rwanda in the 1950s," her lawyer told AFP Tuesday.
Kigali, however, may soon turn the tables on Paris.
Judicial sources there say Rwandan prosecutors could soon issue warrants and indictments against some of the 33 political and military French officials named in a Rwandan report on France's alleged role in the events of 1994.
These who could find themselves accused include former prime ministers Alain Juppe and Dominique de Villepin and former foreign minister Hubert Vedrine.
Some European investigators fear that Kabuye deliberately delivered herself to German authorities so her lawyers could gain access to the case files prepared against her and other Kagame allies.
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Kenya must do more to find
Kenya must do more to find Rwandan genocide fugitive: court
L'homme d'affaires Rwandais qui a finnacé le genocide des Tutsi s'est caché au Kenya. Le tribunal international exige du Kenya qu'ils fassent mieux dans leur recherche pour le retrouver.
Une idée de ce que représente cet individu c'est la somme de 5 million de dollars que les états unies offre en récompense a ceux qui le trouveront.
Les Français n'aiment pas cette idée de récompense.
NAIROBI (AFP) – Kenya must do more to track down a wealthy businessman accused of funding the massacre of hundreds of thousands of people during the 1994 Rwandan genocide, the International Criminal Tribual for Rwanda said Thursday.
Felicien Kabuga, an ethnic Hutu, has been accused of being a key financier and supplying machetes and other weapons to take part in the massacre of 800,000 people, mostly Tutsis, within four months in 1994.
He is believed to be hiding out somewhere in Kenya.
"The prosecutor is not completely satisfied by the level of cooperation and assistance received so far. He wants more," ICTR spokesman Roland Amoussouga told a press conference in Nairobi.
"If evidence exists that Kabuga is no longer in Kenya, it needs to be passed on to us," he added.
ICTR Prosecutor Hassan Bubacar Jallow will present his bi-annual report to the UN Security Council on Friday and is again expected to raise the issues of Kabuga's whereabouts.
The United States has placed a five-million-dollar bounty on the head of Kabuga, who has been on the run for years since being indicted by the ICTR for his role in the 1994 Rwandan genocide that claimed 800,000 lives.
Kenya, where Kabuga allegedly found protection from senior officials in the previous government, denies he is in the country and has pledged to arrest him if discovered there.
Born in 1935, the wealthy businessman is said to be a frequent traveller to various African nations where he buys protection.
He was thrown out of Switzerland in 1994, and spent some time in the Democratic Republic of Congo before seeking refuge in Kenya, where he has escaped several attempts to arrest him.
Kabuga escaped arrest in Kenya in 1998, when an ICTR team raided a Nairobi house allegedly rented from a nephew of the now-retired Moi and found a note indicating the fugitive had been tipped off by Kenyan police.
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