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Genocide Fugitive Nabbed2006-08-09All Africa Global Mediaby Felly Kimenyi Just three months after the publication of the list of genocide suspects, the Dutch government on Monday night arrested Joseph Mpambara, one of the 93 genocide fugitives on the list. "This is a very good gesture by the Dutch, given the fact that The Netherlands is the world's hub of justice, home to world courts. The Dutch came here and were satisfied by the evidence we had against him," the Prosecutor General Martin Ngoga, said on phone yesterday. He said that that is how the Dutch government got interested in Mpambara's case together with scores of others holed there. Ngoga said that after the release of the list, many countries including The Netherlands, Canada, Denmark and Sweden had responded positively by sending police officers and Prosecutors to carry out investigations. "Actually, they are doing it the way we wanted it to be done; sending their own people to carry out the survey is more effective than asking us to send indictments," Ngoga said adding: "We are expecting others from France within the next two weeks." Ngoga said the Prosecution is planning to restructure the group charged with tracking genocide fugitives known as the Mobile Group, and that it is going to be called Genocide Fugitives Crack Team. "It will be launched soon," he emphasised. The head of Mobile Group Emmanuel Rukangira, told The New Times that Mpambara is a brother to Georges Rutaganda, a genocide mastermind who was sentenced to life imprisonment by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR). "They were together throughout the killings that took place in Kibuye especially the massacres of tens of thousands that took place in Bisesero," Rukangira, a Prosecutor, said. Rukangira said that soon another list of suspects covering the former provinces of Cyangugu, Gitarama and Gikongoro will be published. According to Rukangira, Mpambara, who was arrested in Amsterdam together with other unidentified people, who are said to have been in a meeting, had changed names. By press time the identities of the other people had not yet been established but sources said they were members of the Forces Democratiques de Liberation du Rwanda (FDLR).
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