Jean Paul Munyarukato

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Your ref: OTP/2003/P/SNB/L3

 Date: 31 March 2005

Mr. Hasssan B.Jallow                                                                                                                   Prosecutor of the ICTR Arusha                                                                                                 International Conference Center                                                                                                             P.O. Box 6016, Arusha                                                                                                                 Tanzania                                                                                                                                                 Fax: 0012129632848

 Dear Sir,

 Ref: RPF crimes under ICTR jurisdiction

Back in 2003 I approached twice your office and offered to provide a first hand account on the strategies of mass extermination and the massacres that the rebels of the Rwandan Patriotic Front perpetrated in Byumba in 1994.

Despite an unambiguous promise on your behalf to contact me, I have not heard from your office since your 11 December 2003 correspondence. I gather the same kind of frustration from other activists and eyewitnesses of many horrendous massacres that were organized and orderly carried out by the criminals who are for the moment sturdily protected by the government of Rwanda.

 Furthermore, following the handing over of the ICTR jurisprudence to the Rwandan Judicial authorities, it appears now that your office has finally decided to ignore all pleas for an impartial justice at Arusha. This is clearly an unsatisfactory way of complying with the unequivocal tribunal mandate about the crimes of genocide, crimes against humanity, violations of Article 3 common to the Geneva conventions and of Additional Protocol II that were committed in Rwanda in the year 1994.

Particularly disappointing is the fact that the ICTR has made it unconcernedly not to unveil some of the deadliest strategies of mass extermination that were used by RPF during the period of genocide in 1994. I spoke of INAMA (public meetings) in the 22 May 2000 letter to your predecessor Mrs. Carla del Ponte. This remains a tested mass extermination capability in the hand of a group of criminals who would never relinquish any opportunity to deploy it again should the grip they have on the political and military power be threaned.

Also, may I point out that there are many who expected ICTR to break away from a string of UN disappointing achievements in Rwanda? The truth is that today the ICTR stands for the eradication of the impunity of “the people in power” in precisely the same way MINUAR stood for the protection of civilians in 1994, in exactly the same proportion UN monitors stood for the inclusion of ethnic minorities in the democratic process they oversaw in 1961. At all these occasions, everything else was done accordingly but what really mattered to ensure an enduring legacy.

 Yours Sincerely,

 Jean Paul Munyarukato 

cc.                                                                                                                                                                                   Judge Erik Møse                                                                                                                                                    President of the ICTR, Arusha

 Mr. Bongani Majola                                                                                                                                                Deputy Prosecutor, Kigali