/ 16 November 2001

552 CHILD GENOCIDE SUSPECTS GAIN FREEDOM

ANOTHER 552 children suspected of genocide and other crimes against humanity regained their freedom on Monday after spending three months in the Gaculiro re-education camp in the capital, Kigali. Unicef Information Officer Cyriaque Ngoboka said that 13 girls were among those freed, after a traditional village tribunal heard testimonies of their innocence. Monday’s release brings to 1 500 the minors the government has so far released from detention. The government says that one million Tutsis and politically moderate Hutus were killed in the 100-day genocide of 1994. – Irin