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Stockton on Tees, Ts18 2EQ
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Date: 31 March 2005
Prosecutor of the ICTR
Arusha International
Conference center
P.O. Box 6016, Arusha
Tanzania
Fax: 0012129632848
Dear Sir,
Ref:
RPF crimes under ICTR jurisdiction
Back in 2003 I
approached twice your office and offered to provide a first hand account on the
strategies of mass extermination and the massacres that the rebels of the Rwandan
Patriotic Front perpetrated in Byumba in 1994.
Despite an unambiguous
promise on your behalf to contact me, I have not heard from your office since
your 11 December 2003 correspondence. I gather the same kind of frustration
from other activists and eyewitnesses of many horrendous massacres that were
organized and orderly carried out by the criminals who are for the moment
sturdily protected by the government of Rwanda.
Furthermore, following
the handing over of the ICTR jurisprudence to the Rwandan Judicial authorities,
it appears now that your office has finally decided to ignore all pleas for an
impartial justice at Arusha. This is clearly an unsatisfactory way of complying
with the unequivocal tribunal mandate about the crimes of genocide, crimes against
humanity, violations of Article 3 common to the Geneva conventions and of
Additional Protocol II that were committed in Rwanda in the year 1994.
Particularly
disappointing is the fact that the ICTR has made it unconcernedly not to unveil
some of the deadliest strategies of mass extermination that were used by RPF
during the period of genocide in 1994. I spoke of INAMA (public meetings) in
the 22 May 2000 letter to your predecessor Mrs. Carla del Ponte. This remains a
tested mass extermination capability in the hand of a group of criminals who
would never relinquish any opportunity to deploy it again should the grip they
have on the political and military power be threaned.
Also, may I point out
that there are many who expected ICTR to break away from a string of UN
disappointing achievements in Rwanda? The truth is that today the ICTR stands
for the eradication of the impunity of “the people in power” in
precisely the same way MINUAR stood for the protection of civilians in 1994, in
exactly the same proportion UN monitors stood for the inclusion of ethnic
minorities in the democratic process they oversaw in 1961. At all these
occasions, everything else was done accordingly but what really mattered to
ensure an enduring legacy.
Yours Sincerely,
Jean Paul Munyarukato
cc.
President of the ICTR,
Arusha
Deputy Prosecutor,
Kigali