{{Genocide survivors are shocked by the early release granted to two Rwandans convicted of genocide by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR).}}
Paul Bisengimana, who was the mayor of former Gikoro in Kigali Rural and Serushago, former leader of the Interahamwe in Gisenyi, are now free.
“International justice must be seen as a mechanism for education.”
“In addition to providing short sentences, they do not even let them finish those sentences, “lamented Jean Pierre Dusingizemungu, president of the main association of survivors.
“We have no jurisdiction to challenge what the court decided. But you cannot hide the fact that decisions are disappointing, “said the president of Ibuka.
The two men were convicted by the ICTR to 12 and 15 years in prison.
They were held in Mali, under an agreement between that country and the United Nations.
In this decision, the President of MTPI Mechanism (Mechanisms of International Criminal Tribunals), Judge Theodor Meron, was inspired by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, where the convicts are eligible for early release after two thirds of their sentence.
The MTPI was officially opened in early July.
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