{{Zambia has reaffirmed its promise to continue protecting Rwandan refugees in the southern Africa country whether or not the refugees are genocide suspects.}}<\/p>\n
The Zambia Home Affairs Ministry official Jacob Mpepo told journalists in the capital Lusaka Thursday that his country is not compelled to extradite 1994 Rwandan genocide suspects due to a lack of a bilateral treaty, an official said.<\/p>\n
“We don’t have an extradition treaty with Rwanda. We have with other countries, not Rwanda,” he said.<\/p>\n
Rwanda has called on Zambia several times, to screen its refugees and hand over those it claims were perpetrators of the 1994 genocide.<\/p>\n
“To extradite a Rwanda who lives here can be a bit problematic,” the minister said.<\/p>\n
He added: “I was involved in arresting a lot of those people, but when we did the screening against the UN list of suspects, we only found one and that person was actually taken to Arusha.”<\/p>\n
He said Zambia was among the first countries to respond to the call by the UN to arrest suspects of the genocide living in the country as refugees.<\/p>\n
Although not obliged to extradite any suspect, the government can arrest those found wanting, said Mr Mpepo<\/p>\n
Rwandan nationals residing in Zambia recently rejected a request by Kigali to give details of their names to obtain their national passports fearing they will be targeted.<\/p>\n
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