Rwanda received (Monday) the Dossier of Uwinkindi Jean-Bosco a Pentecostal pastor accused of helping to orchestrate the mass killings in Rwanda’s 1994 Tutsi genocide.
Martin Ngoga the Prosecutor general hailed the development saying this is a win for Rwanda’s Justice system.
The chief Prosecutor International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, Hassan Bubacar Jallow presented to Rwanda’s Prosecutor general the dossier containing all criminal charges against Uwinkindi.
This follows the request by Rwanda to try within the countrys judicial system some genocide suspects being held at the Arusha based International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda ICTR.
The ICTR chief Prosecutor Bubacar Jallow explained that the decision to transfer Uwinkindi and others to be tried in Rwanda was adopted in December 2011 following a clear transformation of Rwanda’s justice system especially the removal of the death penalty.
Uwinkindi who had a five-million dollar reward on his head was arrested as soon as he crossed into Uganda from the Democratic Republic of Congo following a tipoff from the ICTR that had been tracking him.
Uwinkindi was in 2001 indicted by the UN-backed International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) for genocide, conspiracy to commit genocide and extermination as a crime against humanity.
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