Rwandan Prosecutor-General Martin Ngoga has slammed France, criticising the country for not doing enough to bring genocide suspects in its territory to justice and stated that Rwanda is willing to consider legal action against France.
In an interview earlier this week, Ngoga stated,
"In eighteen years, France has not done anything with regard to the genocide suspects... Why? Because it is still protecting them.""Why haven't these cases been brought to trial?... The ICTR gave France two case files. It accepted them and promised to process them with diligence. But for the last five years they have gone nowhere. I note that Laurent Bucyibaruta, former prefect of Gikongoro, was in the area controlled by the French army. I conclude that this is a way of protecting him. I don't have all the evidence, but we know how to read between the lines."
On the prospect of legal action against France, Ngoga went on to say,
"We haven't yet decided, it's up to the government. But we are not going to sit and do nothing while these individuals who have killed our people are enjoying impunity in France."
"French judges must know that their country is the only one that hasn't launched any trials. There have been indictments in lots of other European countries, including Belgium, the Netherlands and the Scandinavian countries."
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