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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 is undoubtedly true. The perpetrators of the 1994 genocide, in which Hutu extremists slaughtered some 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus in 100 days, are guilty of one of the greatest crimes in the history of humanity. But as the international tribunal where Nizeyimana will be tried prepares to wrap up by the end of 2013, celebrations over his arrest will not ease a long-held sense of discontent about the genocide's aftermath and whether justice has really been served. For all the big fish it may have landed, the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR...
...that the fact that Nizeyimana's alleged crimes are truly abhorrent. He was the Hutu intelligence chief at the time of the genocide and is believed to be one of the people most responsible for the horror. The particulars are grisly. His men allegedly killed 600 Tutsi students at Butare University, and they didn't stop there. Patients at a nearby hospital were dragged from their beds and hacked to death. Nizeyimana purportedly ordered Rwanda's ceremonial queen, Rosalie Gicanda, to be taken from her home and killed. Gicanda's elderly bed-ridden mother was killed days later...
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