Kigali, Rwanda
The Belgian government and human-rights groups are protesting the arrest of a missionary charged with abetting the 1994 Rwandan genocide. Guy Theunis, a Belgian Catholic priest, was a missionary with the White Fathers group in Rwanda from 1970 to 1994. He was arrested last week, accused of having reprinted in a Catholic newspaper articles from a Rwandan paper encouraging Hutus to kill their Tutsi neighbors. Some 800,000 people were killed, mostly hacked to death by machete, in a horrifying, three-month spree. The U.N. tribunal set up to try the thousands of suspects has moved so slowly that the Rwandan government has begun referring cases like Theunis’ to traditional courts. Theunis says he is innocent, and Human Rights Watch said there is no evidence against him.
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