| FUGITIVE LADISLAS NTAGANZWA |
The United Nations has
reported the arrest of one of the most wanted fugitives sought after for atrocities
connected with him in the 1994 Rwandan genocide. He was arrested after being on
the run for 21 years.
The fugitive, 53 year old Ladislas
Ntaganzwa, was apprehended in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and would be
transferred to Rwanda, the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR)
prosecutor informed the U.N. Security Council, to face trial on indictment for
genocide and other serious violations of international law on human rights.
He is one of nine
fugitives for which a reward of $5 million reward has been offered for any information
that would facilitate their capture. The other fugitives, however, remain at
large.
Ntaganzwa who was a mayor
and chairman of the National Republican Movement for Democracy and Development
(MRND), is accused of being one of the persons behind the genocide perpetuated
in his prefecture where led to the slaughter of thousands of Tutsis and
moderate Hutus by extremist Hutus. His other accusations include rape and
sexual violence abuse of women.
The violence involved the
majority Hutu and minority Tutsi tribes and erupted after a plane carrying
then-President Juvenal Habyarimana, an ethnic Hutu, was shot down on April 6,
1994. This resulted in the death of over 700,000 people within a period of three
months. Nearly half of the dead were children while another 95,000 children
lost their parents to the genocide.
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