Most African Countries Frustrate Trial of Genocide Fugitives

{{African countries hosting most genocide fugitives are at the forefront of not honouring warrants of arrest of these perpetrators.}}

The head of the Genocide Tracking Unit, Jean Bosco Siboyintore told IGIHE that most african countries never deny nor admit hosting genocide suspects.

“They never tell us what they have tried to do in order to bring to book the genocide perpetrators.”

During the 1994 Genocide against Tutsi’s , a million lives were lost in only a hundred days.

Most perpetrators escaped out of Rwanda and took refuge in countries around the world but mostly in Africa.

Most african countries have no extradition treaties with Rwanda, a situation that hinders efforts to deliver justice.

Siboyintore commends countries that have arrested genocide fugitives and handed them for trial to the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR).

He expalined that there is no time limit on the Genocide crime. Perpetrators if captured shall always be brought to book despite the time they have spent running away from aprehension.

{Jean Bosco Siboyintore of the Genocide Tracking Unit }