Another notorious Genocide suspect who has been on the run for a quarter century has finally met his fate.

Theodore Rukeratabaro, a former policeman in the current Western Province, spearheaded a group of Interahamwe militia who mounted countless raids at sites where Tutsi had sought refuge; churches, schools hospitals and even a stadium.

In order to evade capture, Rukeratabaro made slight changes to his name reducing it to Tabaro, but all those efforts came to naught, his forty days were up.

Scandinavian countries are the most who put a lot of efforts to bring to book Genocide suspects on their territory; they either extradite or put them on trial if they have already acquired citizenship.

As the Scandinavians are showing the willingness to punish perpetrators of the crime of the century, the same could not be said of everyone, especially Judge Theodor Meron, the president of the United Nations International Residual Mechanism for International Tribunals.

Meron has courted controversy on several occasions by unilaterally granting early release to Genocide convicts. Recently, he even made known his intentions to grant early release to others, including Hassan Ngeze, one of the most virulent architects of hate media. He openly called for the eradication of Tutsi through his publication, Kangura.

So, it was a pleasant surprise that not all senior officials are in Meron’s camp. During his visit to Kigali this week, the Mechanisms’ Prosecutor, Mechanism Prosecutor Serge Brammertz, came out to condemn tribunal’s president for granting early releases without consulting anyone or not setting conditions for their behavior once out.

Getting satisfactory justice is not an easy thing to accomplish, but it is the gesture by the likes of Sweden that gives some measure of hope that not all is lost. Genocidaires will spend sleepless nights; constantly looking over their shoulders once they step outside, for justice will not let up.