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Rwandan authorities are drawing up a list of some 300 alleged masterminds of the 1994 genocide who are outside the country in a bid to have them arrested, Martin Ngoga, the nation's deputy prosecutor general, told IRIN on Monday.
"We want them brought back and prosecuted," he said.
These, he said, were mainly people who planned the genocide and were, therefore, the most wanted. He said the list, detailing the suspects' crimes, would be made public. In addition, he said, Rwanda would seek international help in tracking down the suspects, some of whom who had fled to places as far away as Australia.
After the genocide, in which an estimated 800,000 Tutsi and politically moderate Hutu were killed, many high-ranking officials of the defeted army and government fled the country as Tutsi rebels entered the capital in July that year, ending the killings.
The UN International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda responsible for trying the masterminds of the genocide is due to complete its work by 2010.
The tribunal, headquartered in the northern Tanzanian town of Arusha, has arrested 66 of the 81 people it indicted for the genocide, a figure that the Rwandan government finds too small.
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