Editor,

RE: "CNLG urges France to cancel arrest warrants against Rwandan officials” (The New Times, November 24).

Every aspect of French judicial processes on Rwanda since their involvement in the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda has become fully contaminated with political calculation.

Start with the repeated shameless decisions of that country’s Cour de Cassation to systematically reverse extradition orders by lower courts for Genocide suspects to be extradited to Rwanda for trial, on the risible grounds that when these suspects are alleged to have committed the crimes for which their extradition is sought, genocide wasn’t a crime in Rwanda.

If a country’s Supreme Court can openly push this kind of despicable and indefensible conclusion, why would anyone think their ‘justice’ system is anything but politics-by-other-means?

Mwene Kalinda