{"id":66421,"date":"2024-02-28T13:57:05","date_gmt":"2024-02-28T13:57:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/all-news\/rwanda-renews-call-for-australia-to-extradite-two-genocide-fugitives"},"modified":"2024-02-28T14:29:59","modified_gmt":"2024-02-28T14:29:59","slug":"rwanda-renews-call-for-australia-to-extradite-two-genocide-fugitives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/policy\/rwanda-renews-call-for-australia-to-extradite-two-genocide-fugitives","title":{"rendered":"Rwanda renews call for Australia to extradite two Genocide fugitives"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Rwanda. <\/strong><\/span>Rwanda\u2019s National Public Prosecution Authority (NPPA) has renewed its call on Australian authorities to extradite Genocide fugitives following an investigation by the Guardian Australia and ABC Four Corners, which traced two men accused of having a role in the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi, in which over one million lives were lost.<\/p>\n

The two men have been identified as Froduald Rukeshangabo and Celestin Munyaburanga with the former living in suburban Brisbane, where he works as a driving instructor, according to the joint investigation by the two media houses.<\/p>\n

\u201cMunyaburanga has family in the same city \u2013 although it is unclear whether he is in the country and understood he might be living under a different name,\u201d the investigative report said.<\/p>\n

After a trial in absentia in May 2005, a Gacaca court in Busasamana, Nyanza District sentenced Munyaburanga, a former headmaster of a local school, to life imprisonment for playing a role in the killing of at least 20 Tutsi civilians at a roadblock at Hanika in Nyanza area.<\/p>\n

Survivors contacted by Four Corners testified that during the Genocide, Munyaburanga had a gun and that he gave orders to kill and decided when the victims were be killed and the weapons that would be used.<\/p>\n

Rwandan authorities sent an arrest warrant for Munyaburanga, now aged 60, to the Australian government, in 2017. At the time, he was believed to be living in Canberra, the country\u2019s capital city.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Rukeshangabo who is a former school inspector in Kibungo (today\u2019s Ngoma District) was in was in November 2007 convicted in absentia by a Gacaca court.<\/p>\n

The 68-year-old is accused of participating in attacks that killed at least 10 Tutsi civilians, according to Gacaca archives seen by the Guardian\/Four Corners team.<\/p>\n

Rukeshangabo, who was sentenced to 30 years in prison, has lived in Australia since at least 2009. He became an Australian citizen in 2014.<\/p>\n

\u2018Australia has an international duty\u2019<\/p>\n

\u201cWe invite the Australian police together with the prosecution to come to Rwanda because it\u2019s where the crime scene is located; it\u2019s where witnesses will be found,\u201d John Bosco Siboyintore, a prosecutor who heads NPPA\u2019s Genocide Fugitive Tracking Unit, said in an interview with Four Corners.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is an issue of international nature; this is genocide,\u201d he said. \u201cWe will leave no stone unturned until justice is done.\u201d<\/p>\n

He said Australia had \u201can international duty to either prosecute or extradite\u201d Munyaburanga and Rukeshangabo.<\/p>\n

Siboyintore said the Rwandan prosecution sent an indictment and arrest warrant for Rukeshangabo to Australian authorities.<\/p>\n

Four Corners confirmed that Rukeshangabo’s indictment was received by the Australian government in January.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen a country is not prosecuting a genocide case, when it has been asked to do so, it should know that it is giving safe haven to other perpetrators. It beats every sensible person\u2019s understanding,\u201d Siboyintore noted, adding that the fugitives \u201cneed to face the law.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Africa-Press – Rwanda. Rwanda\u2019s National Public Prosecution Authority (NPPA) has renewed its call on Australian authorities to extradite Genocide fugitives following an investigation by the Guardian Australia and ABC Four Corners, which traced two men accused of having a role in the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi, in which over one million lives were lost. 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