Rwandan Genocide Victims Threaten Boycott to UN Court

Kigali, TimeIsNews.com - citizen groups who escaped genocide (genocide) in Rwanda in 1994 said they would stop sending witnesses to the UN trial in Tanzania. The statement was in protest against the release of two suspects in the last trial.

These groups, which provide many witnesses for trial, saying they no longer want to cooperate unless the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) to cancel its decision to liberate Hormisdas Nsengimana and Protais Zigiranyirazo.

“ICTR had to sit back and review their decisions, if there is no positive decision is taken, the relationship (with us) is over,” said Freddy Mutanguha, secretary general of Ibuka, an umbrella organization that groups of residents who survived the assassination incident in a protests in Kigali.

ICTR, so far, has sentenced 39 of the 47 suspects. The court was freed Nsengimana this week because not enough reason and evidences to punish a Catholic priest as a war criminal and had committed crimes against humanity.

Trial in Tanzania was also released on the grounds Zigiranyirazo has happened factual and legal errors (the presumption of Zigiranyirazo).

Egide Kayinamura (21), whose entire family was killed in a 100-day genocide in Rwanda in 1994 were, is one of about 200 people demonstrating at the ICTR office in the Rwandan capital, Friday. “Personally I feel very sad because these results. We do not expect results like that. We are very upset that they were liberating the people,” said Kayinamura.