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Rwanda : Request for extradition of Colonel Serbuga - A French association is under no illusion
11 September 2013 Source: Swallow

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A French association, the Collective of civil parties for Rwanda (CPCR ) , suggested Wednesday that it was under no illusion as to the final decision of the court in France on the request for extradition of a former senior Rwandan military officer .

After postponing its decision a month ago , the Court of Appeal of Douai, in northern France , must give its opinion Thursday on the Rwandan request to Colonel Lawrence Serubuga , former Deputy Chief of Staff of the Rwandan army .

The septuagenarian , who maintains his innocence , is wanted by the Rwandan justice accused of helping to organize the genocide of Tutsis in 1994.

"If the judges were to Douai in favor of extradition to Rwanda , everyone now knows that the Court of Cassation ( the highest court in France ) , true to its case abort this decision " writing the President of the SCRC, Alain Gauthier, in a statement received Wednesday Hirondelle .

So far, the Supreme Court overturned the rare French court decisions in favor of the extradition of Rwanda , in particular because Rwandan law punishing genocide was passed after the events . The Court also doubt that the accused of genocide can receive a fair trial in Rwanda .

Originally from Gisenyi prefecture ( North) as President Juvenal Habyarimana , whose assassination on 6 April 1994, was the trigger for the genocide of the Tutsi - , Serubuga was arrested on July 11. It was presented at the next General Douai prosecutor has notified his international arrest warrant . The colonel was then remanded in custody .

Serubuga is part of a group of eleven officers , known as the "Comrades of July 5 ," that helped General Habyarimana to power in July 1973. Having held a few years later the functions of Deputy Chief of Staff of the Rwandan army colonel was forced to retire in June 1992. But according to the SCRC , " he resumed service in 1994 ."

Several other Rwandans suspected of involvement in the genocide of Tutsis are the subject of proceedings in France . For the association, " the sole interest of such procedures is to recall that in 1994 , Rwanda, a genocide against the Tutsis was committed and number of genocide suspects have found refuge in France a benevolent if not complicit" .

The SCRC has always called the French justice over these suspects if she still considers that the conditions for extradition are met. A first trial, the captain Pascal Simbikangwa must take place in France in February and March 2014 , on the eve of the twentieth anniversary of the genocide .

 

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