The recently concluded 10th annual East Africa Police Chiefs Cooperation Organization (EAPCCO) summit in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa resolved to pursue Rwanda Genocide fugitives. According to the summit’s resolutions, the Council of Police Chiefs recognized that genocide is a grave crime against humanity and decided to include it in their joint police cooperation agenda. (04-SEP-09)
Written by James Karuhanga, this article was first published today in the Rwandan newspaper the New Times. It has been edited and prepared for republication here by HRHF / Niels Jacob Harbitz.
“Police chiefs resolved that they should implement that and specifically hunt down the genocide suspects of Rwanda,” said Mary Gahonzire, the acting Inspector General of Police who also attended the meeting. She stressed that arresting more of the genociders would depend ‘very much on the commitment’ by member states, whose contribution her delegation highly appreciated.
“The Rwandan delegation thanked member states which had helped in tracking down those arrested so far,” she told The New Times on phone yesterday evening. The meeting had been convened to discuss ways of joint police cooperation in preventing crimes in the region – countering possible cross-border crimes, terror acts, child trafficking and organized crime along borders, among others. EAPCCO was established nine years ago in Kampala, Uganda. Its member states are Ethiopia, Sudan, Kenya, Tanzania, Somalia, Eritrea, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Djibouti, and the Seychelles.
Source:: http://www.newtimes.co.rw/
