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...expected to block the bill, nor is the White House expected to object. And prospects for any referendum effort to halt same-sex marriages appear equally dim. When opponents sought a ballot initiative to halt the earlier bill, the board of elections deemed the effort illegal under Washington's Human Rights Act, a decision that was upheld in court. A pending effort to do the same with Catania's new bill will likely meet the same fate. (See a pictorial history of the battle for gay rights...
This week's arrest of accused Rwandan génocidaire Idelphonse Nizeyimana is the kind of thing that human-rights lawyers dream about. Dubbed the "Butcher of Butare," Nizeyimana is a suspect whose conviction would be a powerful symbol of justice in a land where thousands of the genocide's perpetrators escaped punishment by blending back into society or fleeing across the border into the Democratic Republic of Congo...
That may be just how Kagame wants it. Human-rights groups say he has used the specter of the genocide to solidify his power base and perpetrate a new campaign of repression. The media is no longer free. Last year, the government passed a vague law that seeks to stamp out "genocide ideology." That has chilled free speech and criticism of the government. (Read "Rwanda's Most Wanted...
...cases back to Rwanda is politically fraught. Courts in France, Germany and Britain have refused to allow genocide suspects to be extradited to Rwanda for fear that they will not face a fair trial. "We have a lot of concerns about whether the Rwandan judiciary is independent," a Rwanda human-rights researcher, who did not wish to be named because that is their organization's policy, tells TIME. "Judges are being told how to decide cases; they don't always have the freedom to decide cases on the evidence." In addressing old injustices, the danger is always that new ones...
...original version of this story has been changed to reflect the fact that the Rwanda human-rights researcher spoke anonymously because that is their organization's policy...