{"id":37517,"date":"2018-05-20T08:27:21","date_gmt":"2018-05-20T08:27:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/chief-justice-calls-for-vigilance-in-handling\/"},"modified":"2018-05-23T16:19:52","modified_gmt":"2018-05-23T16:19:52","slug":"chief-justice-calls-for-vigilance-in-handling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/chief-justice-calls-for-vigilance-in-handling\/","title":{"rendered":"Chief Justice calls for vigilance in handling genocide related crimes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rugege was speaking on Friday in Kigali at the commemoration of former justice sector personnel that were massacred during the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi attended by, among others, justice sector employees and families of slain victims.   <\/p>\n<p>He said that the value that should be bestowed upon genocide victims is justice which does not consider ethnicity.<\/p>\n<p>  \u201cAmong what we should give particular attention is cases related with the genocide against the Tutsi. They should be fairly tried because when they are not properly handled, they can destabilize the attained unity and reconciliation among Rwandans,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI call upon prosecutors and Judges\u2019 attention when handling cases of genocide ideology, deniers and trivializers or when re-trying cases that had been tried by Gacaca courts,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the event, the head National Commission for the Fight Against the Genocide, Dr. Jean Damasc\u00e8ne Bizimana said that prior to the 1994 liberation, justice system turned  a blind eye in pursuing people who initiated hatred and cultivated the genocide ideology among Rwandans.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cJudiciary is among sectors that paved ways for the genocide. Investigators and prosecutors were characterized by persecuting and judges were characterized by injustice, neglecting laws and violating human rights based on ethnicity; Tutsi were particularly desecrated,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cJudiciary did not pursue politicians who initiated activities spreading hate and genocide ideology,\u201d he noted.  <\/p>\n<p>He said that political parties like APROSOMA and Parmehutu started to spread documents cultivating hate and trivializing Tutsi in 1957 and 1959 through their papers.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-25341 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/ry6b0091-ba7f1.jpg\" alt=\"Chief Justice Prof. Sam Rugege\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-25340 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/ry6b9864-9c6b9.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chief Justice Prof. Sam Rugege has called upon prosecutors and judges to be vigilant while handling cases of genocide ideology, denial and minimization so that they deliver justice.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[72],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-37517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-featured-news-home","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37517\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37517"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=37517"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=37517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}