{{Following a landmark trial in France of Pascal Simbikangwa accused of complicity in the genocide against ethnic Tutsi’s that claimed over a million lives in 1994, calls are being made to resume invesitigations into a case of another suspect.}}
Since 1995 after his arrest by Interpol, Rwandan genocide suspect Dr. Sosthenes Munyemana has been under investigation for his role in the Genocide.
Four Rwandans complained against him and he was indicted for genocide and crimes against humanity.
Simbikangwa’s open trial gives hope to the association Cauri , whose president , Mukantabana Adelaide had complained against Dr. Munyemana.
Since 2006, Dr.Munyemana has been serving as an emergency Doctor at the hospital in Villeneuve -sur- Lot, France. In Rwanda, he was convicted twice in absentia. Arrived in France, the state refused to give him an asylum but preferred his extradition. However, He was placed under judicial control.
Dr. Munyemana’s lawyer says that the investigation is now in “normal way.”
The last investigation was conducted almost a year ago and it was a confrontation by video conference between the accused and a Rwandan who called into question. But since then no other notice is on the agenda.
{{The Suspects}}
Many of the suspects are elites who held influential positions in the genocidal government of former President Juvenal Habyarimana.
They include Laurent Bucyibaruta, former prefect of the former Gikongoro prefecture, and Father Wenceslas Muyeshyaka, a former Catholic priest at St Famille parish in Kigali.
Others are Dr Sosthene Munyemana and Eugene Rwamucyo, former lecturers at the National University of Rwanda (NUR); Lt. Col. Marcel Bivugabagabo, former director of operations in the former prefectures of Ruhengeri and Gisenyi; and Felicien Barigira, who headed the communal development fund.
The list also includes Claver Kamana, a former businessman and president of the then ruling party National Republican Movement for Democracy and Development (MRND) in the former Gitarama prefecture; Pierre Tegera, who worked with the National Programme for Potato Improvement (PNAP) in Kinigi and served as an honorary president of the Interahamwe genocide militia in Kibilira commune; Alphonse Ntilivamunda, formerly a director in the Ministry of Public Service; and Enoch Kanyondo alias Pheneas Gakumba, who was a football referee and an active member of MRND.
They also include Callixte Mbarushimana, a former employee of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Kigali, who currently serves as the Secretary General of the Congo-based Forces for Liberation of Rwanda(FDLR) militia; Stanislas Mbonampeka, a lawyer; and Isaac Kamali, who was the director in the Ministry of Public Service in charge of Kigali City.
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