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11-09-2008, 11:27 PM
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The government denies involvement in the death of the former president
German police have arrested a senior Rwandan official in connection with the killing of a former president whose death triggered the 1994 genocide. Rose Kabuye - the chief of protocol for current Rwandan President Paul Kagame - was detained on arrival at Frankfurt on a warrant issued by a French judge.
She is one of nine senior Rwandan officials wanted over the shooting down of Juvenal Habyarimana's plane. All are members of the party which ousted the genocidal regime.
The Rwandan government has strongly rejected the charges and accuses France of complicity in the genocide, in which 800,000 Rwandans were killed.
AFP news agency quoted Rwandan Information Minister Louise Mushikiwabo as saying that Ms Kabuye's arrest was a "misuse of international jurisdiction". Correspondents say Ms Kabuye, a former guerrilla fighter with the Rwandan Patriotic Front, has heroic status in Rwanda. She has since served as an MP and mayor of the capital Kigali, and is one of president Paul Kagame's closest aides.
The time is nigh.
The government denies involvement in the death of the former president
German police have arrested a senior Rwandan official in connection with the killing of a former president whose death triggered the 1994 genocide. Rose Kabuye - the chief of protocol for current Rwandan President Paul Kagame - was detained on arrival at Frankfurt on a warrant issued by a French judge.
She is one of nine senior Rwandan officials wanted over the shooting down of Juvenal Habyarimana's plane. All are members of the party which ousted the genocidal regime.
The Rwandan government has strongly rejected the charges and accuses France of complicity in the genocide, in which 800,000 Rwandans were killed.
AFP news agency quoted Rwandan Information Minister Louise Mushikiwabo as saying that Ms Kabuye's arrest was a "misuse of international jurisdiction". Correspondents say Ms Kabuye, a former guerrilla fighter with the Rwandan Patriotic Front, has heroic status in Rwanda. She has since served as an MP and mayor of the capital Kigali, and is one of president Paul Kagame's closest aides.
The time is nigh.