Rwanda: Zapatero forced not to appear with Paul Kagame

By on July 19, 2010
The presence of Rwandan President Paul Kagame in Spain has brought back memories of the atrocities where members of the actual regime were charged of “genocide” causing a furore in Spain. That brought Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero to decide, at the last minute, not to appear with Paul Kagame at a UN meeting on poverty. He was represented by his Foreign Minister, Miguel Angel Moratinos.

It should be noted, that officers were accused of destabilising the extremist Hutu regime of Juvenal Habyarimana in place at the time. His assassination in April 1994 sparked the genocide of about 800,000 lives according to the UN census, especially among the minority Tutsi. Mr. Kagame, in 2008, denounced the “arrogance” of the Spanish arrest warrants, declaring that: “The war we conducted was to liberate our country”.
Meanwhile, Mr. Ban Ki-moon didn’t make any comment about the accusations made by the Spanish court against the Rwandan regime; but during his meeting with Paul Kagame, he encouraged the Rwandan authorities to fully investigate the murder of the opposition leader, Andre Kagwa Rwisereka, whose body was found on Wednesday, and on that of the independent journalist, Jean Leonard Rugambage, on June 24…

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