Canucks harboring groid war criminals

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Afreakin groid hiding in Congonada

Toronto resident charged with war crimes

A 39-year Rwandan man living in Toronto has been charged with committing crimes against humanity in connection with events in his homeland more than ten years ago, the RCMP said Wednesday.

The counts cap a five-year investigation and mark the first time anyone has been charged under the Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes Act, which came into effect in October 2000.

DÃ*©sirÃ*© Munyaneza faces seven charges under the act including two counts of genocide, two of crimes against humanity and three of committing war crimes.

The RCMP did not offer specifics of the allegations involved in the case but said the charges relate to events in Butare, Rwanda, in

1994.

That year, hundreds of thousands of Tutsis and
moderate Hutus were killed on orders of a militant Hutu government.

Without the tremendous assistance and co-operation of our War Crimes Program partners in Canada and the United Nation's International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, we would never have been able to arrest this suspect today, said Inspector Graham Burnside, officer in charge of the War Crimes Section.

As part of their investigation, police said they interviewed numerous witnesses in Rwanda, Europe and Canada.

Outlining their efforts, the RCMP called international investigations, particularly those dealing with war crimes and crimes against humanity, as especially complex, lengthy and often dangerous.

Adding to the complexity, police said, is the fact that investigators must establish not only that an accused committed a crime, but also that a crime was committed as part of a widespread or systematic attack against an identifiable group of peo
ple.


Thanks to the dedication and perseverance
of the investigators on this case, we were able to make history today, Insp. Burnside said. " am very proud of the work the RCMP and its partners have collectively accomplished.
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Canuckistani officials will most probably deny extradition, mainly because they need every one of them nigger voters to re-elect their nigger-loving asses.

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Congroid gets his comeuppance

War crimes trial first test of Canadian legislation

MONTREAL — When Desire Munyaneza claimed refugee status in Montreal in 1997, little did he know that a decade later he’d be making Canadian history, albeit not in a desirable way.



The father of two young children, who comes from a wealthy business family in Rwanda, is the first person to be charged under Canada’s seven-year-old Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes Act, having allegedly murdered civilians, raped several women and pillaged during his country’s 1994 genocide.
His trial gets underway this morning in Quebec Superior Court at the Montreal courthouse where all parties right up to the judge are dealing with an untested law.

“It’s a humongous trial in unchartered waters,”�”� said Richard Perras, one of three defence lawyers working on the case. “It has been a major enterprise to organize this.”�”�

Indeed, the RCMP have been on Munyaneza’s tail since the War Crimes Unit in Ottawa was tipped off in 1999. Their investigation has taken them across Canada, to Europe and to Rwanda several times. In January, a commission of 17 people, including three prosecutors, three defence lawyers, a judge and support staff, spent six weeks in the Rwandan capital of Kigali interviewing 14 witnesses who are either in detention or ill, and therefore unable to make it to Montreal for the trial.

Another 13 witnesses are to be flown to Canada to testify. Because of the increasing number of violent reprisals against witnesses testifying at the Rwandan community courts, known as gacaca, their identity is top secret. Only the accused, the prosecutors, the defence and the judge will know their real names — they’ll be referred to by letters and numbers, and will testify behind a screen.

Among the witnesses on the Crown’s list is Senator Romeo Dallaire, who was in charge of the much-criticized United Nations forces in Rwanda during the genocide.

The cost to taxpayers will be enormous, but Gerry Caplan, an expert on the Rwandan genocide, said that seems like a small price to pay for justice.

By using the new law, he said, Canada is sending a message to the world that perpetrators can’t hide out here, and at the same time is assuaging Western guilt about not having done enough to prevent or stop the genocide, in which close to a million of the country’s Tutsis and politically moderate Hutus were systematically slaughtered in the span of 100 days.

Munyaneza, who turned 40 on New Year’s Eve, was arrested October 19, 2005, as he left his Toronto home. He was transported to Montreal, where he was arraigned the next day on seven counts, including two of genocide, two of crimes against humanity and three of war crimes — all of which carry a life sentence.

His trial will be before a judge only.

Munyaneza’s initial refugee claim was dismissed on Sept. 20, 2000, and twice again on appeal. He was never given notice of his pending deportation, and so continued living freely in Canada. And if he’s convicted, he’ll serve his entire sentence here.

His Toronto lawyer, Laurence Cohen , is convinced his client will be acquitted, especially after the testimony heard recently in Rwanda. The Crown obviously thinks otherwise.

“We wouldn’t have laid charges if we weren’t confident and if there wasn’t a probability of a conviction,”�”� said Richard Roy, one of three Crown prosecutors working on the case and the person who signed the indictment. “In our case, there is more than ample evidence for a conviction.”�”�

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Typical Africoon Behavior

Witness links defendant in Montreal genocide trial to mass rape

Family members of Desire Munyaneza, who is accused of widespread murder and rape during the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, snickered in court on Tuesday when a witness described him as a killer.

The woman, who was 17 at the time of the genocide, managed to describe a long scar stretching from Munyaneza's left ear to his chin.

The only other way she described him was "a killer."

"I recognize him," said the woman, who was sitting directly across from the prisoner's box. "I saw him as soon as I entered this court and I felt very frightened."

More than 500,000 members of Rwanda's Tutsi ethnic group were systematically slaughtered by Hutus during the 1994 genocide.

Munyaneza, 40, is the first person to be charged and tried under Canada's crimes against humanity and war crimes law.

He was arrested in 2005 at his Etobicoke, Ont., home after a six-year RCMP investigation. He came to Canada as a refugee in 1997.

While cross-examining the woman, known only as C15 to protect her identity, defence lawyer Richard Perras suggested the only reason the woman could identify Munyaneza was that he was the only black man in the courtroom who was sitting behind glass windows and beside a guard.

Why, Perras asked, could the witness not identify the accused when she was questioned by RCMP officers in 2003?

Munyaneza "would come out at night. It was during a war and I couldn't see the person to describe him," she said through an interpreter.

"A long time has lapsed. That is why I told investigators that I could be more specific if I could see him or if I could testify at his trial."

She told the Quebec Superior Court hearing how she tried to kill herself by drinking tea made with stagnant water rather than be hacked to death by a machete.

And when the refugees, weak from hunger and thirst, tried to drink from a river, they scooped up heads of the dead along with the bloodied water.

The woman, one of 13 witnesses brought from Rwanda to testify, took the stand March 26, the first day of the trial.

But she fainted from the trauma of recounting the horrific details of the genocide and had to be hospitalized.

Her voice was forceful on Tuesday and the interpreter told the judge the woman "was strong."

The witness said she saw Munyaneza at a motel owned by someone named Maheng.

It was a place where women were taken and raped repeatedly by the Interahamwe, the extremist Hutu militia.

In her earlier testimony, she said she was raped by 10 men on one day. "There were about five young men there in one room," she said. "Desire had a gun."

The trial continues on Wednesday.

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why is canada involved with this BS?


Horrors of Rwanda slaughter retold at trial

TU THANH HA

From Wednesday's Globe and Mail

MONTREAL — Convinced that they were about to die, desperate Tutsis sang Christian hymns about going to Heaven as they were driven to a Rwandan town from which previous busloads of refugees hadn't returned and where they were said to have been killed.

But the blood-covered, machete-wielding Hutu militiamen who stopped them at a roadblock were exhausted from slaying people all night and sent them away.

They were then taken to a forest where, trying to drink from a river, they found the water full of blood and human heads.

Those apocalyptic moments were recalled in a Montreal courthouse yesterday as the opening witness in Canada's first war-crimes trial resumed the testimony she had to interrupt last week after she fell ill describing her gang rape.
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Hour after hour, she spoke of mass rapes, of people clubbed or hacked to death, of desperate refugees driven to suicide.

Known as C-15, she was the first of two witnesses who have spoken at the trial of Rwanda-born Toronto resident Desire Munyaneza.

The two witnesses are among a dozen from Rwanda who are to testify against Mr. Munyaneza, a 40-year-old failed refugee applicant charged with seven counts of mass murder, rape and pillaging.

Witness C-15 was 17 in April of 1994 when Rwanda plunged into chaos as the Hutu majority massacred the Tutsi minority.

Mr. Munyaneza lived at the time in the southern town of Butare.

C-15 and a woman identified as C-16 were among the Tutsis who sought protection at the prefecture, the office of the local government, as Hutu militiamen known as Interahamwe set upon them.

C-15 had previously described being taken to the home of a man named Mahenga where she and several Tutsi women were repeatedly raped over three days.

Afterward, she recalled yesterday, “we all looked like aged persons.”�”�

She also said she saw Mr. Munyaneza there, holding a gun with a group of armed men.

The women were led back to the prefecture, where many Tutsi refugees had taken shelter in the back of the compound.

In the following days, she said, they were shuttled several times between the prefecture and the local episcopal primary school, known by the acronym EER.

The first time they were led to the EER, “I don't know what happened [at the school] because one soldier took me to a bush and raped me,”�”� she said.

“When I came back I found out many people had been killed, especially young men.”�”�

She and four others tried to commit suicide by drinking tainted water at the instigation of a refugee who argued that “maybe it's a better death for us.”�”�

Three died but the remainder were revived by others who found them in agony.

A pastor told them to vacate the place because it was time for school to resume, but they were later ordered away from the prefecture because “the staff, after saying we were smelling, said we were to return to EER.”�”�

At the EER, the Interahamwe came daily and picked people to take away. “People would die every day among us. . . . They would be taken to the forest to be killed,”�”� she said.

She said she witnessed some of the killings, where people were beaten with clubs.

She also saw people being led away at the prefecture, taken away by Hutus in a mud-smeared pickup truck. People were beaten with clubs and forced onto the truck.

The witness said she saw Mr. Munyaneza drive around Butare with his friends, singing “The world belongs to the Hutus.”�”�

One day, the prefect told them they would be taken to a safe place, a nearby town called Nyaruhengeri.

Two buses came. C-15 and her friends couldn't get in because the buses were filled quickly. They were told they would be transported the next day.

“The next day, a boy came and said all the people on the buses were killed.”�”�

When another bus showed up, she and her friends refused to climb aboard.

“We said we wanted to be killed there. We were told if we didn't board the bus, they'd bring the Interahamwe who would kill us and bury us somewhere.

“We had no other options. We climbed in. In the process we were beaten up.”�”�

She added that “a few girls who had been kept as sexual captives were kept behind.”�”�

In the bus, she said, they sang hymns about going to Heaven. Some recited rosaries, but a police officer yanked their praying beads from them.

Interahamwe men met them at a roadblock. “They had machetes stained with blood and bloodied cloth. What they were wearing was stained with blood,”�”� she said.

“They told our driver they spent the whole night killing. They were tired and the policemen were to return us and kill us themselves, or they'd kill us, put our bodies in the bus and take them away because Nyaruhengeri was full of bodies.”�”�

When they were driven back to the Butare, the prefect said, “Fine, leave them there. I'll dispose of them.”�”�

Afterward, they were driven to the forest near Rango, south of Butare.

Police officers escorted them to the river to fetch water. But as they tried to scoop up the water, they saw that it was blood-filled and had human heads floating in it.

She said her ordeal ended with the arrival of the RPF, the opposition group consisting mainly of Tutsis.

Mr. Munyaneza had a small smile when the witness identified him in court. His relatives snickered when she described him as a killer.

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Tutsiess raped 4 times by giant Mud-ape

Desire Munyaneza raped woman four times in Rwandan genocide: alleged victim

MONTREAL (CP) - A witness at a war crimes trial in Montreal testified Tuesday that Desire Munyaneza raped her four times during the genocide in Rwanda in 1994.

The witness, known as C17 under a court order protecting her identity, is the first person at the trial to testify she was a direct victim of violence at Munyaneza's hands. After several days on the run from one gruesome massacre scene to the next, the woman was taken with several others to a local government office where they were kept for days.

The woman says she was offered up as a gift to Munyaneza by a Hutu militia member.

"He undressed me, made me lie on the ground, and then he had his way," C17 recalled during emotional testimony.

"Desire raped me."

The woman added that Munyaneza raped several other women and hacked Tutsi men to death.

Munyaneza is facing seven charges under Canada's new war crimes act, including genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes.

Munyaneza came to Canada in 1997 and took up residence in Toronto.

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Another spearchucker who prefers Canadian jails

Alleged Rwandan war criminal wants to be tried in Canada

QUEBEC — A Rwandan accused of fomenting genocide — and who was ordered deported by the Supreme Court of Canada two years ago — asked on Wednesday to have a war crimes trial in Canada.



Quebec City resident Leon Mugesera has been fighting his deportation for 12 years and his expulsion has been put on hold while the federal government determines whether his life could be in danger in Rwanda.

In a statement issued on Wednesday the exiled ethnic Hutu hardliner called on Justice Minister Robert Nicholson to try him under new Canada’s war crimes legislation.

Mugesera’s deportation came to the fore again this week after the Rwandan government dropped the death penalty for convicted war criminals, removing a major hurdle preventing Canada from sending him home. The ban opens the way for genocide suspects to be tried in the central African nation where some 800,000 people were massacred in 1994.

But in his statement Mugesera pointed out that Amnesty International has often criticized Rwanda for human rights violations. He has also said in the past that he is a sworn enemy of the current Rwandan regime and could be murdered upon arrival.

Mugesera and his lawyer Guy Bertrand declined to comment further.

A spokeswoman for Nicholson said she could not comment on specific cases, but said the Department of Justice, in coordination with the RCMP, examines all credible allegations of crimes against humanity and starts proceedings in cases where Canada has the jurisdiction and when it is appropriate to do so.

Decisions on whether to proceed with any prosecution are based on reasonable prospect of conviction and the public interest, she added.

Desire Munyaneza, also a Rwandan, is the first person to have been charged under Canada’s seven-year-old Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes Act. He was charged with murdering civilians, raping several women and looting during the genocide.

Mugesera, a former university lecturer, is accused of giving a speech in 1992 in which he called Rwandan Tutsis “cockroaches” and encouraged his fellow Hutus to kill them. He arrived in Canada shortly after that.

Canada began deportation proceedings against him in 1995 after officials learned of the speech. A series of appeals ended with the Supreme Court ruling in 2005.

In its judgment, the high court stated that Mugesera was “an active member of an hard-line Hutu political party” and that he delivered a speech that incited to “murder, genocide and hatred.”

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This Jigaboo has rhythm and ZOG wants it to stay

MONTREAL (CP) - Leon Mugesera is accused of inspiring mass murder, but on many Sundays the man who is No. 44 on Interpol's list of fugitives from the Rwandan genocide sings divine inspiration in Quebec's cathedrals.

Mugesera is a leader of a choral group called "Magnificat," a touring choir of about a dozen Rwandan immigrants that performs soul-elevating hymns at Sunday masses in Quebec.

The regular appearances among the Catholic devout grate on members of Quebec's Tutsi community who have watched Mugesera's 14-year refuge from justice in Canada.

Mugesera is accused of whipping up a genocidal frenzy against Tutsis in Rwanda with a speech in 1992, just before he fled to Canada.

Longtime observers of the case say friends in high Canadian places, including clergy, academics and government officials, have helped shield Mugesera from Rwandan justice ever since.

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Munyaneza found guilty of Rwandan war crimes

Desire Munyaneza, who is facing seven charges related to genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes for his alleged role in massacres and rapes near Butare, Rwanda, is seen in this undated court sketch.

A Quebec court has found Desire Munyaneza guilty of war crimes in Rwandan genocide, the first person ever convicted under Canada's Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes Act.

Munyaneza, 42, was found guilty of all seven charges against him related to genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes for his alleged role in hundreds of massacres a
nd rapes near Butare, Rwanda.

He faces life imprisonment in a Canadian jail. His defence has already announced, though, that they plan to appeal.

Details of the ruling -- expected to top 350 pages -- are not yet available.

The crimes that Munyaneza has been convicted of were related to incidents that took place during Rwanda's 1994 genocide. During the three-month-long slaughter, close to 800,000 minority Tutsis and moderate Hutus were murdered.

The trial, begun in March 2007, has been one of the most expensive ever held in Canada, with costs soaring to more than $1.6 million.

Quebec Superior Court Justice Andre Denis heard testimony from more than 60 witnesses across three continents over two years, often behind closed doors because witnesses feared reprisals.

Both the defence and Crown filed 1,000-page written final arguments. There were also some 30,000 annexed pages and another 16,000 pages of court transcripts. Justice Denis deliberated for six months befor
e handing down his ruling.

There were language problems with witnesses flown in from Rwanda, with many having trouble remembering details of when and where events occurred more than a decade ago. Many broke down crying as they recounted stories of rape, murders with machetes, and mass graves full of mutilated bodies.

Munyaneza, the privileged son of a wealthy beer distributor in Rwanda, has been in Canada since 1997, when he sought refugee status, claiming that he would be killed if sent back because he was a Hutu.

His refugee claim was rejected in 2000, by which time he was likely under investigation by the RCMP for the alleged war crimes. He was finally arrested in October 2005 at the Toronto home he shared with his wife and two children.

About a month after his trial began, a 17-year-old inmate who said he had read about Munyaneza in the newspaper severely beat the Rwandan in his prison cell. He sustained a broken nose, slashes to his face and head trauma.

Following
a brief postponement of the case, he was placed in isolation in prison.

The case marks the first time that Canadian courts have undertaken a prosecution of international war crimes. It will set an important precedent for any future cases tried under the Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes Act, which Canada adopted in 2000.

The case is widely expected to be eventually appealled to the Supreme Court.

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Negrocidal killer rewarded with warm, comfy cell

A Rwandan nig convicted of war crimes has been jailed for life by a Canadian court, without the prospect of parole for 25 years.

Desire Munyaneza, 42, was found guilty in May in the first court case brought under Canada's 2000 War Crimes Act.

He was convicted of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes committed in 1994.

The sentencing judge said the law considered the crimes committed by the accused to be the "worst in existence."

Judge Andre Denis described the sentence, the harshest possible, as "severe".

The trial took place over two years, and heard emotional testimony from 66 witnesses about the atrocities.

'Boost for survivors'

Munyaneza was accused of leading a militia whose members raped and killed dozens of Tutsis, and of orchestrating a massacre of 300-400 Tutsis in a church.

His lawyer has said he will appeal against the conviction.

Munyaneza arrived in Canada in the 1990s and tried to claim asylum - but the authorities rejected his claims.

He was arrested in 2005 in a Toronto suburb after allegations emerged that he had been a militia leader during Rwanda's civil conflict.

Rwandan Jean-Paul Nyilinkwaya said: "The fact that he was found guilty is a very big boost for the survivors. Everybody there is desperate for justice."

Mr Nyilinkwaya, who now lives in Canada, was instrumental in Munyaneza's capture, according to Associated Press news agency.