first in Germany, now in Paris: Callixte Mbarushimana again Hutu militia leader was arrested for common terrorist plans for the Congo.
BY D. Johnson and S. Schlindwein
appeared in TAZ: 10/13/2010
arrested in Paris: Callixte Mbarushimana, political leaders of the Rwandan FDLR militia. Photo: Reuters Only 26 August 2010 Mbarushimana had denied in a press statement that FDLR troops have been responsible for a series of gang rapes in the district Walikale late July and early August. At the time, however, the chief prosecutor of the Tribunal had already requested an arrest warrant against Mbarushimana.
was on 28 September issued and remained under wraps. Now released, he identifies eleven counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity, including rape, Murder, destruction and torture. On several crime scenes or in the Kivu provinces are listed, without the specific alleged criminal to do so.
a concrete accusation of, among other things, the planned attack carried out by an FDLR battalion to the place Busurungi, said 60 civilians died, many women were raped, pregnant women were ripped open the bellies of the FDLR combatants.
Mbarushimana, the ICC had "personally and intentionally contributed to a common plan to carry out attacks against the civilian population in order to bring about a humanitarian catastrophe and launch an international campaign in order to to extort concessions FDLR political power. Mr. Mbarushimana is suspected of having organized the said international campaign and conducted by he used regular international and local media. "
The emphasis on a" common plan "a new quality mark in the international cooperation against the FDLR, as the main obstacle to Peace in Central Africa is. is from The Hague to hear you have been working a half years in close cooperation with the German authorities, who in 2009 already arrested FDLR President Ignace Murwanashyaka and his deputy Straton Musoni. you and Mbarushimana is responsible for the same accused of crimes.
Mbarushimana, the ICC had "personally and intentionally contributed to a common plan to carry out attacks against the civilian population in order to bring about a humanitarian catastrophe and launch an international campaign in order to to extort concessions FDLR political power. Mr. Mbarushimana is suspected of having organized the said international campaign and conducted by he used regular international and local media. " Unlike Murwanashyaka Mbarushimana to have been actively involved in the genocide in Rwanda. The charges of the Rwandan Prosecutor General's Office are shocking. The Hutu Mbarushimana had worked during the genocide in Rwanda as a computer expert for the United Nations Development Programme UNDP. were withdrawn When his foreign counterparts at the beginning of the massacres of Tutsi in April 1994, he appointed himself to the office manager. Armed with a Kalashnikov Mbarushimana have convened several meetings in his UN office in Kigali, where he contracted the murder of other Rwandan UN staff that planned the Rwandan Act.
confirm witnesses He would have created a list of his colleagues, which he had provided with the marking "H" for Hutus and "T" for Tutsi. He was followed by the Hutu Interahamwe militia out to the houses of the "T" employees. After the bloody deeds he had invited the militia leaders in the evening to UNDP headquarters in Kigali to the beer.Mbarushimana was subsequently employed at the UN, first in Angola and later in Kosovo, after which he went to France. Several times he was arrested on arrest warrants for Rwandan and run again. Now, the Congo has caught up with him.
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