Kenya
KIDNAPPED: Jean Chrysostome Ntirugiribambe (Rwandan nat.)
= investigator of key defence cases
at UN tribunal for Rwanda - International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR)
ALLEGEDLY amid mounting evidence
Rwandan President Paul Kagame’s intel services behind the abduction
*crackdown on Rwandan refugees & dissidents
*8mths after Kenya kidnapping of another high profile Rwandan asylum seeker {Emile Gafirita}
*Emile Gafirita was to testify French enquiry - 1994 downing plane carrying fmr Rwandan president / event genocide spark
Allegation kidnapping facilitated by:
1) Lt Col James Burabyo
= military attaché at the Rwandan embassy Uganda
(under the instructions of Jack Nziza)
2) Francis Mutiganda, external intelligence services chief
Jack Nziza =
“... notorious figure that has worked in Rwandan intelligence for decades and played a crucial role in killing, abducting and torturing perceived opponents of Kagame”
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Lt Colonel Mutiganda
= purportedly much-feared individual
= recently worked in UN peacekeeping
= oversees Rwanda external intelligence
= allegedly directed a killing squad in Rwanda
Rwanda external intelligence:
= purportedly:
“... long suspected of carrying out murderous operations abroad in conjunction with Rwandan embassies.”
UN department of peacekeeping DPKO
= did not vet properly
= DPKO unwilling to fire Mutiganda b/c Rwanda troop contributions to peacekeeping op
Mutiganda & Nziza
work under authority of National Intelligence and Security Services (NISS)
Lt General Karenzi Karake
= head of NISS
= was arrested London last month on a European arrest warrant issued by a Spanish court
= Karake now faces possible extradition to Spain for having allegedly organized the murders of three Spanish nationals in the late 1990s in Rwanda.
= also is accused of having ordered large-scale massacres of Hutu civilians following the genocide.
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