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Genocide suspect to be interviewed on Habyarimana crash

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    The prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) Carla Del Ponte has authorised a French anti-terrorism judge, Jean-Louis Brugiere, to interview Rwandan genocide suspect Hassan Ngeze regarding the 1994 shooting down of an aircraft which killed Rwandan president Juvenal Habyarimana and the-then president of Burundi, the independent Hirondelle news agency reported on Friday. Del Ponte said Brugiere would undertake a recorded interview with Ngeze on 15 May at the ICTR headquarters in Arusha, Hirondelle stated.

    Ngeze said he had information for anyone who wanted to know the truth about the 6 April 1994 air crash, which sparked the Rwandan genocide, the report added. Ngeze, who was editor of the extremist ‘Kangura newspaper, stands accused of genocide and crimes against humanity for allegedly inciting Hutus to kill Tutsis, and is due to stand trial jointly with other members of the so-called ‘hate media’. He alleged in ‘Kangura’ that the aircraft had been downed not by extremist Hutu elements but by the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF), now in power but then the Tutsi rebel army, Hirondelle reported.

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