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The London-based human rights organisation Amnesty International has commended the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) for pursuing the arrest of Rwandans suspected to have taken part in the 1994 genocide.
In a statement, Amnesty welcomed the arrest of Lieutenant-Colonel
Tharcisse Muvunyi, a former Rwandan army commander, in London on 5 February and General Augustin Ndindiliyimana, the former Chief of Staff of the Gendarmerie, on 31 January in Belgium.
"These arrests reaffirm the principles of international justice and the importance of providing financial, political and moral support to the ICTR and the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY)," the statement said.
On Wednesday, a French court upheld an earlier decision to deport Jean de Dieu Kamuhanda a former Minister for Education and Culture to the tribunal in Arusha, northern Tanzania. He was the first genocide suspect arrested in France.
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