French justice will never cease to surprise

FOR ANYONE conversant with Rwanda’s history, the name Col. Laurent Serubuga has a familiar but sinister tinge to it. He was the Deputy Chief of Staff of the Rwandan army (Ex-FAR) for many years (President Juvénal Habyarimana was the de-facto Chief of Staff). Serubuga’s war crimes date as far as 1990 when hundreds were massacred in Kibungo and Byumba, and on the night of October 5, 1990 orchestrated a simulated attack by the then RPF rebels in Kigali that led to the roundup of thousands of Tutsis.