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Rwanda: Professor Peter Erlinder ventures into Kigali to defend Ingabire


Olivier Nyirubugara (23 May 2010)- Professor Peter Erlinder flew to Kigali last Saturday 22 May to meet Ms Victoire Ingabire, an opposition leader currently under arrest on charges of denying the genocide against the Tutsi and collaborating with terrorist groups.

Ingabire returned home earlier this year after 16 years of exile in the Netherlands. She was then hoping to register her party, the United Democratic Forces and to run for presidency in coming August. All seems to be turning in a nightmare for her as her passport, computer and mobile phone were seized.

I met professor Erlinder in Brussels a few hours before his flight to Kigali. He was attending a conference on the legacy and lessons from the UN Tribunal for Rwanda. The mission will certainly be difficult as local pro-government media have portrayed him as a genocide �minimizer�. In this interview, Professor Erlinder gives his point of view on the road ahead.

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3 comments

1 prettygal { 05.26.10 at 11:00 am }

devil’s advocate!

2 Erlinder�s Arrest: A Blessing or Curse « London Despatch { 05.28.10 at 12:52 pm }

[...] arrived in Rwanda on Sunday, May 23, to defend incarcerated opposition politician Victoire Ingabire � another member of the public [...]

3 kagiga { 05.28.10 at 9:28 pm }

kukiki kagame akomeza kwirata
i think Kagame is scare elect

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