afrol News, 5 June - Rwandan genocide suspect, Dominique Ntawukuriryayo who had taken refuge in France, has been deported to face war crimes tribunal in Tanzania.

Former Rwandese regional governor, was arrested in southern France last year for allegedly taking part in killing over 25 000 Tutsi's in April 1994.

Mr Ntawukuriryayo who had been sought by the war crimes tribunal since 2006, was arrested last October in the southwestern French city of Carcassonne where he had been living openly since 1999 with his Tutsi wife.

Since France began trials for genocide suspects in 1995, it has been under scrutiny from human rights groups saying justice system was taking unreasonably long time, adding that French courts have been unwilling to abide by its obligation to try suspected perpetrators of the 1994 Rwandan genocide.

International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) noted that the great majority of Rwanda genocide victims filing cases in France had indeed been made to wait too long and that none of them had succeeded to date.

Cases related to the Rwanda genocide had in general been met by "a certain coolness by French judiciary authorities," the human rights grouping said.

Mr Ntawukuriryayo who is in possession of French residency papers, has denied charges that he took part in the genocide which claimed 800,000 people's lives, mainly Tutsis and moderate Hutus who were killed between April and July 1994.

Since 1997, the Arusha tribunal has convicted 30 ringleaders and acquitted five who took part in the 100 days of slaughter in 1994.

By staff writer

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