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International warrant for Barayagwiza

    NAIROBI

    Rwanda has issued an international warrant for the arrest of genocide suspect Jean-Bosco Barayagwiza, freed by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), the BBC Kinyarwanda service reported on Thursday. Rwandan Chief Prosector Gerald Gahima told the radio that Rwanda should not pay for the “mistakes” made by the office of the ICTR prosecutor. “We believe that the decision was against the law,” he said. “To say that Barayagwiza had been illegally jailed for a year, that he should be released and never re-arrested - that is unacceptable to us.” It was not in Rwanda’s interests for a court to “release killers for no reason”. “We would not mind if it [the ICTR] was closed,” he added.

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