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In Germany Onesphore R. was well integrated as a refugee. In Rwanda, remember survivors of genocide and complicity in him as a friend of killers.

appeared in Taz: 18.1.2010

Church in Kiziguro, Rwanda. This was on 11 April 1994 massacre at least 1,500 people. Photo: taz

It is a plain but neat house, with a gray wall and a fence made of bamboo stalks. The number is emblazoned in 10.3 flourishes on the front door. Here, in the district Cyivugiza in Rwanda's capital Kigali, once Onesphore R. lived with his wife and two children. Popularly called the streets of the "German Quarter" because the houses were built with the participation of a German company, said a neighbor. They lived before the Rwandan genocide next door to R.. He was in the late eighties, the manager, with him had to pay off the residents monthly rates. "He was actually a nice man," she says. The neighbor, we call it Christine, lost in the genocide father, mother and siblings. Fearing she wants to know her real name not be published. She sits on her sofa and dug out documents of the local Gacaca village court, before which she has testified as a witness. Onesphore R. was there on 6 January 2010 in the absence and perpetrators of massacres in April 1994 convicted. In the days before the murders had taken with R. residents lists by Cyivugiza recalls Christine. "He had armed men here, where he showed the houses of the Tutsi people," she says. Your make-up bleeds with the tears that roll over her cheek.

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Rs wife Celine - then it was called Solina - 1994, the town hall had a bar, not much more than a green container with doors and windows. The guests sat on plastic chairs in the evening on the lawn between the container and the bright blue-painted, round community center. Rs house is located a few hundred meters away from the dusty road.

a gun on the bed

The chairs have disappeared, the meadow is a dusty volleyball without a net, Solinas container is orphaned. The former pub is like a memorial. Christine always reminds you of the days in April 1994 when the Hutu militias "Interahamwe" by the German Quarter went to find Tutsi. The Hutu R., who was 37 years old, was at that time circuit board member of the former Rwandan ruling party MRND, and Mayor of Muvumba in the north of the country.

Christine remembers how in the period before the pick-up with the emblem of the municipality Muvumba on the driver's door by the road swept - with armed soldiers and a machine gun in the back. Mostly he was only in the evening or on weekends have been there, otherwise he organized the refugee camps for his church in eastern Rwanda. Muvumba itself was not for Mayor R. accessible: the Tutsi rebels of the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) the current President Paul Kagame had occupied it in 1990, the Hutus fled.

Before the mass slaughter of 7 April 1994 began, it was R. on the evening of 5 April in the bar, saw his wife, Christine recalls. He drank with the city known Interahamwe, including Noel Hitimana, a journalist at RTLM Hetzradio, prefect of François Karera, who has now been given by the UN genocide tribunal for Rwanda to life imprisonment, and Interahamwe leader Robert Kajuga, today also condemned. Later, these men were, but not regularly R. collected after the massacres in the parish hall behind closed doors, she says. She then sat outside and ordered from Solina beer. Interahamwe had stayed home in Rs.

escape to Germany

begins nearly 17 years later on Tuesday before the Higher Regional Court of Frankfurt, the trial of R. - the first on account of participation in Germany against a Rwandan genocide. The prosecution accused R., to be responsible for the deaths of 3730 people.

Germany since 2002, the new home Rs, his wife and three children now. End of April 1994, she fled to Tanzania, then Zaire, in today's Democratic Republic of Congo, first to the Mugunga refugee camp and then into the city of Kisangani in then through the jungle to Brazzaville, capital of neighboring Republic of Congo. In 2002 she flew to Frankfurt.

R. The engineer speaks fluent German, he studied thanks to the Rwanda-partnership of Rhineland-Palatinate and using a grant from 1982-85 road construction in Trier. R. presented after its entry for him and his family political asylum. At first they lived in the home for asylum seekers Gerolzhofen near Wuerzburg. Her application was rejected, the court doubted the authenticity of the birth certificate of her daughter. The family moved on - to Bayreuth to Schweinfurt, finally Erlensee near Frankfurt am Main.

where she received asylum in 2007. Over the Erlensee Family well-integrated. Solina - now Celine - completed an internship in the kindergarten. With their Turkish neighbors, they are good. The operation of the ice cream parlor on the main street in a friendly nod to the Rs.

R. For the first arrest was therefore quite surprising. He and his wife had lost many relatives, he says, their families were ethnically mixed. R. fears Kagame's intelligence was behind him. The current president of Rwanda was bent on destroying the Hutu elite. Therefore, he regarded his arrest as a political maneuver. But since 2007 R. is on the Interpol wanted list and ranked 435 of the most wanted by Rwanda's judiciary responsible for the genocide. Rwanda's Prosecutor General's Office then sent a warrant to Germany. The German authorities took up investigations. In April 2008, R. was arrested in the immigration office Gelnhausen, where he wanted to pick up his residence permit. By November 2008, he remained in custody.

was then rejected his extradition to Rwanda, R. was released. Two days before Christmas he was again remanded in custody. After the Federal Court of the warrant in May 2009, again because of "insufficient" witnesses picked up, the German authorities determined directly in Rwanda. On 26 R. July 2010 were arrested again.

His lawyer Natalie of Wistingshausen now speaks of a "serious psychological distress". For genocide, in Germany, however, the principle of universal jurisdiction, meaning that the German justice may even act if the acts were not committed in Germany and the alleged perpetrator is not a German, but is staying only in Germany. Thus R. is now in a German court. Multiple was called Rwanda Prosecutor General Martin Ngoga, German investigators in Rwanda welcome. He has them "granted unsupervised access to witnesses, crime scenes and alleged accomplices," he says. In Rwanda's prisons

had many men about R. testify. A beefy man, whose name can not be named because he is condemned not themselves, sitting in pink prison uniform in a bare room in Kigali. The man once in Murambi R. welcomed when he arrived there after 1990 to escape from his community. Mayor of Murambi then Jean de Dieu was Mwange. He has been guilty before a gacaca court in Rwanda is known to have ordered massacres, and is in prison - for life.

R. Mwange the plan is to have plotted to kill all Tutsis in the region. Regularly would be from 7 April 1994, the mayors from surrounding communities, including R., mornings in the canteen over the local authority in Murambi taken to prepare for the massacre. On 11 April was at such a meeting was decided to kill more than 1,200 Tutsis who had taken refuge in the Church of Kiziguro.

On the same day began the mass killing. R. and the other mayors had obtained guns and machetes from Kigali, which they distributed to the young men of the Interahamwe. Rs militia was especially cruel, recalls of complicity, even an Interahamwe leader. When he arrived in Kiziguro, Rs militia had already started killing.

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Kiziguro is a long solid brick building with stained glass windows. The wooden benches on which were piled corpses once, stand in rank and file. Fresh flowers adorn the altar. For people in Kiziguro remains unforgettable, what happened here. Many survivors report that they had seen R. on the church square, as has been murdered inside.

also Claudine Nyirandegeya had sought protection in the church. After 7 April 1994, more and more Tutsi run. The church was full of crying children and anxious women. The now 56-year-old was lucky. On the evening of 10 April she hid with her children outside the church. The next day the Interahamwe stormed the building. R. have given the order to throw grenades.

In a German court to stay these atrocities probably unimaginable. The survivors are still there a little peace of mind, now that a court examines the role of R. Onesphore in the genocide. finance