German Arrest and Extradition of Rwandan Chief Protocol Officer to France Produces Diplomatic Tensions with Rwanda

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Thursday, January 1, 2009
Author: 
Bruce Zagaris
Volume: 
25
Issue: 
1
1
Abstract: 
On November 9, 2008, the German arrest of Rose Kabuye, the chief protocol officer for the Rwandan government on French charges that she participated in the 1994 assassination of then Rwandan president Juvenal Habyarimana, has exacerbated diplomatic tensions between Rwanda on the one hand and France and Germany on the other hand. In November 2006, French judge Jean-Louis Bruguière indicted her and eight Rwandan officials for participating in the assassination of Habyarimana. The indictment provoked Rwanda to break diplomatic relations with France...[more]