{{Rwanda has refuted media claims that it received one of the Democratic Liberation Forces of Rwanda (FDLR) commanders allegedly arrested in Tanzania Last week.}}
According to a regional weekly publication ({The East African}), the Tanzanian intelligence had reportedly said Stanislas Bigaruka had been allegedly picked up last Monday near a Dar es Salaam Hotel by security operatives and handed him over to Rwanda.
Rwanda’s Minister of Justice Tharcise karugarama told IGIHE that he wasn’t aware of any arrest of Bigaruka.
He also said there was no pending case of someone by the name of Bigaruka, “I don’t know him and am not aware of such an arrest. “I will find out about this information,” he said.
However, the Rwanda Defence Forces and Defence spokesman, Brig Gen. Joseph Nzabamwita said, the media reports about arrest of the said Bigaruka are enemy propaganda circulated by their network.
“It is a rumour. FDLR is behind this propaganda,” He said inquiring from this reporter whether he had seen any transfer documents exchanged between the Tanzania and Rwanda.
“Have you seen any transfer documents signed between Tanzania and Rwanda to prove Bigaruka’s arrest and transfer?”
Prosecution Spokesperson Alain Mukuralinda told this reporter that prosecution wasn’t aware of this arrest, “if he is a military person arrested then he should have been handed over to the corresponding institution,” adding that prosecution has no pending case involving the person of Bigaruka.”
Bigaruka is second-in-command to Sylvester Mudacumura also wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC).
A reward worth US$5 million has been offered by the US government for arrest of Mudacumura wanted for murder, rape, torture and attacking civilian populations.
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