Kigali on Wednesday welcomed this week’s arrest in South Africa of a suspect in Rwanda’s 1994 genocide who now faces trial at a United Nations-mandated court.
”That’s great news. This is what we have been asking all countries around the world to do,” Attorney General Jean de Dieu Mucyo told the Hirondelle news agency.
Gaspard Kanyarukiga (59), a businessman from Kibuye Prefecture in western Rwanda and a key suspect in the killings of about 2 000 ethnic Tutsis at a Roman Catholic church in the province, was transferred to the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda in Tanzania on Monday.
The Rwandan government recently handed to Interpol a confidential list of about 300 most-wanted genocide suspects.
”Some governments are cooperating in searching for these suspects. We are waiting for more arrests in the near future,” said Mucyo.
Rwanda says that most of the genocide suspects who fled the country at the end of the genocide in 1994 are hiding in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Kanyarukiga is charged on counts of genocide, complicity in genocide, conspiracy to commit genocide and murder as a crime against humanity. — Sapa-AFP