{"id":37842,"date":"2018-07-10T12:04:59","date_gmt":"2018-07-10T12:04:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/arrest-prosecute-other-42-genocide-fugitives-cnlg\/"},"modified":"2018-07-13T22:19:46","modified_gmt":"2018-07-13T22:19:46","slug":"arrest-prosecute-other-42-genocide-fugitives-cnlg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/arrest-prosecute-other-42-genocide-fugitives-cnlg\/","title":{"rendered":"Arrest, prosecute other 42 genocide fugitives\u2014CNLG tells France"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CNLG made the call in a statement released yesterday while commending last week\u2019s Paris Assize Court for upholding life sentence to Genocide convicts Tito Barahira and Octavien Ngenzi.<\/p>\n<p>The two former bourgmestres who successively led former Kabarondo Commune were convicted of genocide crimes and killing of 2000 Tutsi in Kabarondo Parish and its surroundings.<\/p>\n<p>CNLG said that Barahira and  Ngenzi\u2019s judgments followed 22 judgments that had been taken  by courts in different  countries including France, Sweden, Belgium, England, Norway, Canada and German.<\/p>\n<p>The commission reminded that besides the judgments, eighteen people were extradited to Rwanda from different countries including USA, Canada, Uganda, The Netherlands, ICTR, Norway and German.<\/p>\n<p>A statement signed by CNLG Executive Secretary, Jean Damascene Bizimana says that France still shields a total of 42 genocide fugitives. <\/p>\n<p>The commission says that they filed different complaints but France turned a deaf ear.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cConsidering the date of the complaints, CNLG draws a conclusion that French justice has taken too long to prosecute fugitives suspected of genocide and systematic refusal for political reasons to extradite them to Rwanda,\u201d a statement notes.<\/p>\n<p>CNLG also called on countries to take into consideration a total of 835 arrest warrants that were issued by Rwandan Judiciary. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-26164 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/umunyamabanga_nshingwabikorwa_dr_bizimana_jean-damascene-b425c.jpg\" alt=\"CNLG Executive Secretary, Jean Damascene Bizimana\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Commission for the Fight Against the Genocide (CNLG) has told France Government to arrest and try other 42 genocide fugitives living there.<\/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-37842","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\/37842","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=37842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37842\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37842"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=37842"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=37842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}