Anti-terrorist prosecutors in France have asked for a Rwandan former policeman to be made to stand trial in Paris for genocide and crimes against humanity in his homeland in 1994.
The Ex-Police chief, Philippe Hategekimana has been in detention in France for two years since his extradition from Cameroon, where he was arrested following a warrant from France to that effect in 2018.
He is being accused of putting up checkpoints where ethnic Tutsis were slaughtered in the southern town of Ntyazo, and of complicity in the murder of the town’s mayor Narcisse Nyagasaza.
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Recall that about 800,000 people were slaughtered in Rwanda in 100 days in 1994 by ethnic Hutu extremists, many of whom later fled the country.
They were targeting members of the minority Tutsi community, as well as their political opponents, irrespective of their ethnic origin.
Last month, a report by French historians said France bore “heavy and overwhelming responsibilities” over the genocide but found no evidence of French complicity.
AFRICA DAILY NEWS, NEW YORK
