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Following the ruling by the Special Referral Chamber of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR),\u00a0 a good precedence has been set, and should not only see more cases transferred to Rwanda from the tribunal, but also from other jurisdictions worldwide.The decision was the first referral of a case involving a detainee at the UN court to the country where he is accused of committing crimes during the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi.<\/p>\n

Jean Uwinkindi is a former pastor at the Pentecostal Church of Kayenzi, in Nyamata sector, in present-day Bugesera District, where he spearheaded the killing of thousands of Tutsis.<\/p>\n

He was arrested early last year and transferred to the tribunal’s detention centre in Arusha, Tanazania. As a result, the ruling is likely to see most nations, notably in Europe,extradite to Rwanda the fugitives they have in detention to stand trial in local courts.<\/p>\n

Many countries, despite having made efforts to apprehend fugitives indicted for their role in the Genocide against the Tutsi, have hitherto been reluctant to send them to Rwanda.<\/p>\n

Rwanda, through vigorous reforms in the judiciary over the years, had,by the end of the last decade, the necessary infrastructure to meet international standards to try the Genocide crimes.<\/p>\n

However, until the Special Referral Chamber ruling, Rwanda had been denied the right to try cases involving Genocide suspects arrested outside the country, owing to a smear campaign orchestrated by certain NGOs.<\/p>\n

The latest ruling, therefore, serves as a vote of confidence in the Rwandan judicial system, and other countries should work to have the Genocide suspects in their jurisdictions transferred to Rwanda for trial.<\/p>\n

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