I have said it before and will repeat it: This entity was never constituted to render justice for Rwandans but for the interest of those who created it. Theodor Meron’s actions only serve to confirm my belief that other unavowable reasons, such as defeating the purpose of justice while giving the opposite impression, was always the goal.
Editor,RE: "Govt, survivors raise concern over UN’s early release of Genocide convicts” (The New Times, December 16).
I have said it before and will repeat it: This entity was never constituted to render justice for Rwandans but for the interest of those who created it.
Theodor Meron’s actions only serve to confirm my belief that other unavowable reasons, such as defeating the purpose of justice while giving the opposite impression, was always the goal.
Among those aims was to shield senior French government officials from trial by international courts (a dangerous precedent for officials of other powerful states in comparable situations) on genocide charges.
Meron’s current assignment seems to be to soften even further the original sentences that were already less than the magnitude of the crimes for which the convicts were condemned.
Mwene Kalinda