Editor,

RE: "France sentences two former Rwandan mayors to life for Genocide” (The New Times, July 7).

Not that I have any sympathy for these genocidal monsters; they deserve to spend the rest of their misbegotten lives behind bars and high walls. It would have been preferable to have them serve sentences where they committed their crimes: in Rwanda.

But I will be satisfied if they serve it even in France as long as life means a really long period of actual incarceration and are not paroled a few years hence.

However, the condemnation of these two and the life sentences they have been given raise more questions than they represent an answer.

Given the numerous other suspects with extremely horrifying and highly credible accusations related to their role in the Genocide that France continues to host, what exact criteria are the French judicial authorities applying to decide whom they bring to justice and whom they allow to remain free?

Mwene Kalinda