Bishop (Samuel Musabyimana) pleads innocence: complicity alleged in Rwanda horrors.Arusha, Tanzania Samuel Musabyimana, an Anglican bishop An Anglican Bishop is a bishop in the Anglican church, either in the British Isles or beyond. Anglican Bishops
Bishop Musabyimana is charged with genocide or complicity in genocide, conspiracy to commit genocide and extermination extermination mass killing of animals or other pests. Implies complete destruction of the species or other group. as a crime against humanity In international law a crime against humanity is an act of persecution or any large scale atrocities against a body of people, and is the highest level of criminal offense. . The indictment against him alleges that during the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, when he was bishop of Shyogwe, a centrally located diocese in the Gitarama region, he ordered Tutsi refugees to publicly register themselves by ethnic group. This act guaranteed their deaths with his knowledge at the hands of soldiers and militia, the charges say. Bishop Musabyimana complained bitterly about his arrest on April 26 by Kenyan police. No warrant was shown, he said, and his residence was searched, family belongings were removed and his office was ransacked ran·sack tr.v. ran·sacked, ran·sack·ing, ran·sacks 1. To search or examine thoroughly. 2. To search carefully for plunder; pillage. with no inventory taken. Both the bishop's court-appointed attorney and his Kenyan lawyer complained in Nairobi High court that the arrest was illegal and violated ICTR ICTR International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda rules. Bishop Musabyimana said that he is innocent and that his Christian colleagues should be assured that "there is no blood off my hands." |
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