Rwandan youths act scenes of what happened in the 1994 genocide
Supreme Court judges in the UK will today have to make a decision of whether to extradite five Rwandan genocide suspects, even amidst claims that the suspects don’t feel safe to be tried in Rwanda.
The suspects include; Vincent Bajinya, Celestin Ugirashebuja, Charles Munyaneza, Emmanuel Nteziryayo and Celestin Mutabaruka. All the suspects were arrested and detained by officers from Scotland Yard’s specialist extradition unit following a fresh application by the Rwandan authorities in May 2013.
If the appeal is won, the five men will be granted permission to remain and stand trial in the UK. If the appeal is lost however, extradition of the defendants may be in breach of the 1998 Human Rights Act, with the suspects being subjected to a “flagrantly unfair trial”.
The arrested men have been living freely in Britain since at least the early 2000.
Vincent Bajinya, 52, a London-based doctor who is rated as a ”category one“ offender by the authorities in the Rwandan capital, Kigali. He is accused by the Rwandans of organising the Interahamwe militias responsible for carrying out the massacres of ethnic Tutsis and moderate Hutus.
Celestin Ugirashebuja, 60 and a careworker from Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex; Charles Munyaneza, 55, from Bedford, and Emmanuel Nteziryayo, 60 from Manchester. During previous extradition proceedings all four men denied any wrongdoing.
The fifth man, who it is understood has not been previously arrested in the UK, was named as Celestin Mutabaruka, 57, from Ashford, Kent.
Four of the suspects were subject of a previous failed extradition attempt by Rwandan prosecutors which collapsed in 2009 after the High Court ruled that they could not be returned to face trial.
All of them are suspects of genocide against Tutsi and crimes against humanity committed in Rwanda in 1994 that claimed an estimated one million lives.
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