Editor,

RE: "Canada deports Genocide suspect Seyoboka” (The New Times, November 17). Wherever Genocide master-minders and perpetrators might hide, the truth they try to conceal will always win. Let them be held to account of what they did, and let those that are innocent acquitted. We cannot bring back those we lost but at least we can feel relaxed if those who deprived them of their lives are taken to courts to account for what they did.

Bemba *** This is a good move by the government of Canada and they should be commended, especially since this is not the first person to have been deported from the country. Before him it was Leon Mugesera. This is a major lesson to many countries out there which remain adamant to support the effort to bring to book these criminals and some countries have in effect become dens for these genocidaires. Take an example of France, which, nearly 23 years later, has never extradited to Rwanda anyone of the hundreds of killers that have made that country a safe haven. People like Wenceslas Munyeshyaka, the so-called Catholic priest has been allowed to continue his clerical work in France, despite the hundreds of his congregation whose death he singlehandedly presided over, at Ste Famille church in Kigali. It is shame that even some countries in Africa have continued to habour these killers with little or no effort to bring them to book.

The crime of genocide is not committed against a particular people – in this case Rwanda – it rather, a crime that is committed against the entire human race, so apprehending them should not be looked as being an obligation of Rwandans but that of the entire global community. Shivon