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Kigali hails US decision to deport genocide suspect

    NAIROBI

    The Rwandan government has welcomed a decision by the US Supreme Court on Monday to turn over an elderly Rwandan clergyman to the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) in Arusha, Tanzania. “We would have preferred the deportation of the suspect to Rwanda, but we are happy with the decision to send him to Arusha,” Rwanda’s Prosecutor General Gerald Gahima told IRIN on Tuesday.

    The suspect Elizaphan Ntakiritimana, 75, was seeking to prevent the US government from surrendering him to the ICTR. He is accused of taking part in the massacre of Tutsis and moderate Hutus during the 1994 genocide. A federal judge in Texas ruled in 1998 that there was sufficient evidence against Ntakiritimana. The suspect’s defence lawyer has argued that handing him over is unconstitutional as the US has not ratified a treaty to extradite people to the UN tribunal.

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