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To: Tom Clarke who wrote (1544)	5/28/2001 4:37:45 PM
From: Tom Clarke	Respond to of 23908

UN War Crimes Official Charged With Genocide Rwanda war crimes official charged with genocide By Alex Duval Smith, Africa Correspondent 21 May 2001 An investigator on the payroll of the United Nations war crimes tribunal on Rwanda has been arrested and charged with genocide after he was identified by a witness in the courtroom in Tanzania. The arrest on Saturday night of Simeon Nchamihigo, who had been working under a false name as a defence investigator, is the latest embarrassment for the UN court and backs up recent Rwandan government claims that several tribunal employees are fugitives of the 1994 genocide in which at least 500,000 died. Last month, another genocide suspect, Callixte Mbarushimana, was arrested in Kosovo where he had been working for the UN. Mr Nchamihigo is wanted by Rwanda on "class A" charges, which imply that he is suspected of being one of the organisers of the 100 days of killing that preceded the ousting of the extremist Hutu government in July 1994. Under the name Sammy Bahati Weza, and using a passport from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), he was employed as an investigator for the defence team of Samuel Imanishimwe, a former commander at the Rwandan army barracks in Cyangugu. Mr Imanishimwe is jointly accused with two other former senior Rwandan officials of genocide and crimes against humanity. Mr Nchamihigo is suspected of having been a prosecutor in Cyangugu during the genocide. In a separate development last week which also pointed to flaws in the workings of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, the chief prosecutor, Carla del Ponte, was accused of racism for failing to renew the contracts of seven prosecutors, six from Africa and one from India. The lawyers petitioned the UN secretary general, Kofi Annan, but failed to win their jobs back. Ms Del Ponte, a former Swiss attorney general, has been accused of wanting to drive Africans out of the tribunal. But her supporters say she merely wants to streamline a court which has become so top-heavy that it is ineffective. Since its creation in 1995, the tribunal has delivered only seven verdicts. The most senior figure sentenced so far, the former prime minister Jean Kambanda, has appealed against his life sentence. However, the tribunal's profile has been helped by a series of recent arrests in America, Britain, France and Belgium. Among those awaiting extradition are the former military commander Tharcisse Muvunyi, the former higher education minister Jean de Dieu Kamuhanda, the former leader of the paramilitary police Augustin Ndindiliyimana, and the Seventh Day Adventist pastor Elizaphan Ntakirutimana. The Rwandan bishop Samuel Musabyimana was arrested last month. Rwanda has rejected a claim by the DRC, with which it has been at war for two and a half years, that rebels it backs have killed 2.5 million people in the eastern part of former Zaire. news.independent.co.uk

To: Tom Clarke who wrote (1544)	5/28/2001 5:04:00 PM
From: Hawkmoon	Respond to of 23908

Well, I guess it's better than their being forced to sing "Horst Wessel"... Btw, the Syrians are looking to buy S-300 anti-aircraft missiles from Russia. menewsline.com SYRIA SEEKS FROM RUSSIA S-300, SU-27 JETS MOSCOW [MENL] -- Syria has focused arms negotiations with Russia on the purchase of the Russian S-300 anti-aircraft missile system and the Su-27 fighter-jet. Arab diplomatic sources said Syrian Defense Minister Mustafa Tlas has made this the key requests by Damascus during his talks with Russian defense chiefs. Tlas arrived in Moscow on late Tuesday for a three-day visit to purchase up to $1 billion worth of weapons. The sources said Tlas is also expected to raise the prospect of a Syrian purchase of advanced Russian tanks. Moscow has been marketing the T-80 tank. Syria wants to purchase the S-300 in a drive to counter Israel's air superiority, the sources said. Moscow touts the S-300 as a superior system to the U.S. Patriot and capable of downing ballistic missiles. The range of the advanced S-300 is about 150 kilometers. But the London-based Al Hayat daily, quoted Russian expert as saying that Moscow would turn down a Russian request for the S-300. The daily said both Israel and the United States oppose such a sale.