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Article: Rwandan genocide suspect transferred to ICTR
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- Xinhua News Agency
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- September 17, 2002
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Rwandan genocide suspect transferred to ICTR
DAR ES SALAAM, Sept. 17 (Xinhua) -- Jean-Baptiste Gatete, a
suspect in the 1994 Rwandan genocide, has been transferred to the
International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) based in the
northern Tanzanian city of Arusha, an ICTR press release said
Tuesday.
Gatete was arrested on Sept. 11 by the Congolese authorities
acting on an arrest warrant issued by the ICTR, the first arrest of
an ICTR suspect to be effected in the Republic of Congo. The
transfer was made last weekend.
The indictments against Gatete, the former mayor of Murambi
Commune in Kibungo Prefecture, contains ten counts charging him with
genocide, or, in the ...