Rising Concern Over Rwanda Disappearances
May 17, 2014 2:34 PM
Nick Long

Photo: Bizimana Emmanuel, who was born two years before the genocide,
is consoled by an unidentified woman while attending a ceremony to
mark the tragedy's 20th anniversary, Kigali, April 7, 2014.
Human Rights Watch says an increasing number of people have been
reported missing or fallen victim to forcible disappearances in the
Rubavu district of western Rwanda since March of this year.
The New York-based rights group has documented 14 cases of people who
have been forcibly disappeared or reported missing from Rubavu, and
received credible accounts of several similar recent cases elsewhere
in the same region and in the capital, Kigali.
"In at least eight of the cases we documented in Rubavu ... there were
indications of involvement of soldiers in several cases, and also a
local government official, the executive secretary of the Gisenyi
sector, who was seen taking away the people who have disappeared,"
said Carina Tertsakian, one of HRW's a senior researchers.
Tertsakian says none of the missing people has been located yet and
their relatives are getting desperate. The missing include men and
women, some in their 20s and others who are older, and one man in his
70s.
HRW has raised the issue with Rwandan authorities and said that if any
of these people has been arrested they should be granted access to
their families and legal resources.
"Human Rights Watch met the district police commander in Rubavu,"
Tertsakian said. "He actually knew about some of these cases because
many of the families had reported them, had written letters to the
authorities. He said that they were investigating, [but]] so far none
of the families has been given any information about the results of
these investigations."
Many of the people who have disappeared seem to have had contacts in
the nearby Democratic Republic of Congo, and Human Rights Watch
suggests they may be suspected of collaborating with a Rwandan rebel
group in the Congo known as the FDLR.
In the past four years, Tertsakian says, there has been a pattern of
suspected FDLR collaborators in western Rwanda who have been detained
incommunicado for some time before being put on trial.
The FDLR is composed in part of people who took part in the 1994
Rwandan genocide.
A spokesman for the Rwandan Police told VOA a statement would be
released shortly in response to HRW's report.
http://www.google.ca/gwt/x?gl=CA&hl=en-CA&u=http://www.voanews.com/content/concern-rises-over-disappearances-in-rwanda/1916813.html&source=s&q=Rising+Concern+Over+Rwanda+Disappearances
We heard enough about the FDLR & Kagame! Si des gens portés disparus
ont été exécutés, une enquête internationale et des responsabilités
juridiques devraient être engagés contre les officiels du régime qui
les ont arrêtés.
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