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Congo agrees to extradite genocide suspect to Rwanda

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March 16, 2016
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Millions of people have been displaced by years of war in the Democratic Republic of Congo

 Democratic Republic of Congo will extradite a suspect in Rwanda’s 1994 genocide, Congo’s justice minister said on Thursday, retreating from an earlier demand that Rwanda first respond to Congo’s own extradition requests.
Ladislas Ntaganzwa, a former Rwandan mayor under indictment for his alleged role in the slaughter of some 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus by ethnic Hutu militias, was arrested in eastern Congo in December 2005. He was on the run for 21 years before his arrest.
He was one of nine high-profile fugitives wanted in connection with the genocide who are still at large. Rwanda has accused him of genocide, direct and public incitement to commit genocide, extermination, murder and rape.
Justice Minister Alexis Thambwe said that he had promised a delegation from the Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals, a UN body charged with overseeing prosecutions related to the genocide, on February 19 that Ntaganzwa would be extradited within a month.
“I confirmed to them on that occasion that we agreed to extradite Ladislas,” he said. “At the moment, there are just a few formalities to take care of. It could happen at any moment.” Congolese officials said after the arrest that Rwandan authorities should extradite individuals wanted in Congo first, including Laurent Nkunda, the former leader of a Rwandan-backed insurrection in eastern Congo from 2006-2009. Nkunda is under house arrest in the Rwandan capital of Kigali, according to the United Nations. But Thambwe said on Thursday that reciprocity did not apply in Ntaganzwa’s case as he is the object of a UN-backed international arrest warrant.

Extradition agreements

Uganda, Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) agreed on an extradition treaty for terror suspects and other criminals 2005. The agreement was reached by the tripartite joint commission which was composed of representatives from the three countries with facilitation by the United States, at a two-day meeting in Kigali, capital of Rwanda which ended on Thursday.

Part of this article was First published by Reuters

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