The Norway Supreme court has ruled to repatriate Charles Bandora, a fugitive Rwandan businessman suspected of complicity in 1994 Tutsi Genocide.
Rwanda’s Alain Mukuralinda also a national prosecutor appreciated the decision saying it is one of the fulfillments of ICTR decisions, Swedish and European court of Human rights. “It’s a good thing. It shows that all countries believe Rwandan justice is able to equitably try a person.
He added that a person has to be tried in the place where he committed a crime; if not it can be done where he was arrested. “The most necessary is that a person is sued accurately regarding the law,” Mukuralinda said.
Friends of Bandora and militants of Human Rights have organised strikes on 4th February 2012 before the Norway embassy in Bruxelles to show disapproval against the decision.
They want Norway to send Bandora to another country for they don’t trust the justice of Rwanda.
The family of Bandora says that all the accusations attributed to him are not real, “the influence and responsibilities he is said to have had are a kind of hyperbole.”
Charles Bandora was born in former Gikongoro. He is accused of having participated in the killings that took place at Ruhuha-Bugesera, South East of Rwanda and having plundered properties of the citizens.
He was one of the richest in Bugesera region, he later became MRND president in Ngenda which he ceded to concentrate himself on his commercial activities he was doing in Ruhuha trading center and in Kicukiro district of Kigali city.
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