US embassy cable - 05KINSHASA123

Disclaimer: This site has been first put up 15 years ago. Since then I would probably do a couple things differently, but because I've noticed this site had been linked from news outlets, PhD theses and peer rewieved papers and because I really hate the concept of "digital dark age" I've decided to put it back up. There's no chance it can produce any harm now.

APPREHENDING FUGITIVE ICTR INDICTEES

Identifier: 05KINSHASA123
Wikileaks: View 05KINSHASA123 at Wikileaks.org
Origin: Embassy Kinshasa
Created: 2005-01-24 15:12:00
Classification: UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY
Tags: KAWC KJUS CG RW ICTR
Redacted: This cable was not redacted by Wikileaks.
This record is a partial extract of the original cable. The full text of the original cable is not available.

UNCLAS KINSHASA 000123 
 
SIPDIS 
 
SENSITIVE 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: KAWC, KJUS, CG, RW, ICTR 
SUBJECT: APPREHENDING FUGITIVE ICTR INDICTEES 
 
REF: STATE 11130 
 
1. (U) Information requested reftel follows. 
 
Status of Rewards for Justice Program 
------------------------------------- 
2. (SBU) Rewards for three informants involved in the May 
2004 arrest of indictee Yusuf John Munyakazi are still 
pending Department action.  (Comment:  In 2004 local press 
wrote about delays in payout of Rewards-for-Justice rewards 
to informants.  Those particular issues were resolved, but 
the publicity was unhelpful and post wishes to avoid a 
repeat.  End Comment.) 
 
DRC Needs ICTR Resources, Attention 
----------------------------------- 
3. (SBU) Jallou has declared several times that most indicted 
Rwandan genocidaires who are still free are in the DRC.  Over 
the past two years, five indictees have been arrested in the 
DRC and Congo-B and tipsters continue to report many 
sightings, including of some of those cited in para 5 of 
reftel.  However, post has virtually no recent information on 
any of them.  The ICTR has committed few investigative 
resources to tracking individuals in the two countries, and 
has broken up experienced tracking teams and reassigned their 
personnel.  Jallou has yet to make an official visit to 
either the DRC or Congo-B to develop a working relationship. 
Also, the ICTR has not developed any operational protocols 
with MONUC, although MONUC has assisted with arrests and 
transport of indictees at post's request. 
 
4. (SBU) COMMENT:  In our assessment, if the level of 
professional, skilled attention in the area is not elevated, 
the ICTR will make little or no progress toward arresting 
those indictees still at large.  END COMMENT. 
MEECE 

Latest source of this page is cablebrowser-2, released 2011-10-04