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Six months have passed since eight people acquitted or released by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) were transferred by the UN to Niger, supposedly to live freely and permanently. But they are still without papers and without freedom, confined to a house in Niamey guarded by police and not knowing what will happen to them.
UNITED NATIONS, United States, Feb 9, 2022 (BSS/AFP) - A UN judge has ordered that eight former members of the Hutu
Judge Joseph Chiondo Masanche ordered for "all necessary measures" to be taken "immediately" to send the eight to Tanzania until they could be transferred somewhere else, according to a copy of his order obtained by AFP on Tuesday.
Four of the eight Rwandans were acquitted by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda.
The United Nations International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (UNIRMT) has obstructed Niger’s decision of chasing out eight Rwandans on its soil. They are categorized into those who were convicted by the UNIRMT for crimes of Genocide against the Tutsi and those that were acquitted. On November 15, 2021, the UNIRMT court signed an agreement […]