"This is Radio Libre Mille Collines" calls, the moderator, breathing heavily into his microphone. "The trenches are filled halfway with Tutsi corpses, with help, they fill up!" It is the spring of 1994 in Rwanda, since 7 April, started the killings of Tutsi and moderate Hutu. Machetes, which were put truckload for months to be distributed to the Hutu majority. The catalyst for the mood of the agitators in the Free Radio of the thousand hills, the later even send music to glorify the genocide. Later, media experts will say that the hate mail has been crucial to keeping the genocide going.
The man behind Radio Libre Mille Collines, is the same one who organized the importation of tens of thousands of machetes: Félicien Kabuga, one of the richest men in Rwanda and the Hutu-extremist decided to stay for the seizure of the U.S. government for a ransom of 5 million U.S. dollars. But 15 years after the start of the genocide of the now 74-year-old is still on the run. "Of the 97 defendants, we were able to arrest 84", accounted for Roland Amoussouga, spokesman for the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda in Arusha, Tanzania. "Only 13 are still on the run."
But among these 13 are perhaps the most important surviving instigators of genocide: the then Defence Minister Augustin Bizimana about, and Protais Mpiranya, head of the Presidential particularly brutal. And Kabuga, who is a financier of the genocide. "Many of us know roughly where they stay, "said Hassan Jallow, the chief prosecutor of the place by the UN tribunal. But that is not enough to arrest, because the tribunal has no police. If Jallow know where a suspect is present, then he needs the government of the country to assistance request. "And not all governments are as cooperative as we would wish would be."
No one seriously doubts the fact that Felicien Kabuga for almost 15 years, mostly living in Kenya's capital Nairobi. On September 3, 1994 immigration officials stamped his Fun at the international airport, his wife and six children later, followed shortly after Kenya was not Kabugas best products. Neither Switzerland nor the then Zaire was ready to accept the genocide.
In Kenya, however, Kabuga was received with open arms. "The former Rwandan Ambassador Cyprien Habimana ensured that a number of perpetrators of genocide were given refugee status," explains a former employee of Kenya's immigration office under cover of anonymity. Only in December Habimana was recalled by the new government in Kigali. Since Kabuga had already moved into his first apartment in the chic Gemina Court, next to former president Juvenal Habyarimana's widow. So great was the crush of the extremists that opened in September 1994 in All Saints Basilica of their own school for 140 children was, was taught to the Kinyarwanda. The tutsifeindliche Kangura diatribe that was distributed in Congolese Hutu refugee camps, was printed in Nairobi.
The Kenyan Connection to the Hutu elite to the assassinated President Juvenal Habyarimana, whose plane on the eve of the 7th was shot down April 1994, Tradition. Habyarimana himself was Kenya's autocratic president Daniel arap Moi good friends and had several companies in Mombasa at the Kenyan coast. Kabuga also had connections. His most useful art patron to have been the former head of the feared secret service, Zakayo Cheruiyot. There are many indications that within bureaucracy and politics to this day are many men who keep their protective hand over Kabuga.
Even the usually diplomatic chief prosecutor of the genocide tribunal Jallow criticized Kenya's government is becoming public. "In the Congo the government has problems with their capacity and therefore can not take many refugees," says Jallow. "In Kenya, it's not about capacity, it is about political will."
One of Jallow launched Task Force, representatives of the Tribunals and the Kenyan police members, submitted less than a year a startling report: The network that Kabuga had built up his stewardship, the Expolizeipräsidenten of the country, two personal speakers of the president, two ministers, senior administrative head of Kenya and a host of business people and lawyers. A confidant of former President Moi had also concluded an agreement with the new government about the fact that Kabuga will continue to be protected. The Kibaki government, which is still in office, denied all allegations. The report was never published.
who followed the case Kabuga living dangerously. The Kenyan journalist Cyrus Ombati who follows the trail Kabugas for years, is aware of this. And yet he will not be silent. "The government claims Kabuga is not in the country, yet it has . So Ombati "it just indicted for tax evasion.", He points to one of the many contradictions "Police officers give in private conversation, shamelessly, that he can move freely in Kenya And while they tell you: pass merely on what you about him writing "
The Kenyan financial empire Kabugas includes real estate, farms, hotels, transport and a bus company and an import-export company. Although Kenya frozen government after long hesitation, accounts and possessions Kabugas, but at least two accounts, the Jallow Task Force would review the past year, still seem to be intact. "Neither the Bank nor Barclays Bank Family was willing to help us in educating are supporting, "says an insider. The accounts of business partners and Kabugas son not locked up now.
Once it seemed that the pursuers were about to Kabuga arrest. The businessman William Munuhe arranged a meeting with Kabuga, in which should access the police as Kabuga as agreed on the meeting appeared, the squad leader was impatient because Munuhe not his receiver took off, broke the officials on the door they found the 27-year-old dead in his bed -... he was killed with a headshot been.
also because the police death Munuhes long held secret, many go today to believe that police insiders tell the businessman had. A year ago, Jallow announced a critical report to the UN Security Council, the police announced the arrest at once Kabugas. Only a few days later, the Security Council meeting was over and back in Arusha Jallow, it turned out: The victim was not Kabuga, but Charles Nyandwi, a mathematics lecturer at Nairobi University, the Kabuga did not like you.
But Jallow will not give up. "Kabuga remains one of the most important refugee for us, we just want to see here in court, before we set the end of the negotiations," the chief prosecutor. And after a little more realistic, he continues, "These crimes do not expire." When any you will find and arrest Kabuga. "He can run away, but he can never be complacent."
(Copyright with the daily newspaper, 07/04/2009)
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