Rwanda's Kagame should face court: French judge (Reuters)

Rwanda's Kagame should face court: French judge



By Thierry Leveque Tue Nov 21, 10:15 AM ET

PARIS (Reuters) - A top French judge has called for Rwandan President
Paul Kagame to be brought before a U.N. court over a 1994 plane crash
that killed the country's president and sparked a genocide, a judicial
source said on Tuesday.

Anti-terrorism magistrate Jean-Louis Bruguiere is also seeking international
arrest warrants for nine Kagame associates, including the military's chief of
staff, according to an official document seen by Reuters.

Rwanda's foreign minister dismissed the arrest warrants as an attempt
to cover up what Rwanda says was France's role in training soldiers
who carried out the genocide.

In a 65-page document filed with the Paris prosecutor's office on Tuesday,
Bruguiere said there was evidence that "Paul Kagame and members of his
military staff devised the operation" to destroy Rwandan President Juvenal
Habyarimana's plane.

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