Day: August 12, 2020

Having declared early this June that they are not deploying their observers in the forthcoming elections, the delegation from European Union spent most of today’s morning at NUP headquarters in Kamokya. The six ambassadors from France, Sweden, Hungary, Austria, Netherlands and Denmark paid a courtesy call to NUP. Reliable information reaching our desk have it that pertinent matters were discussed including fully funding the party in 2021 elections. This has left the People Power members well assured of logistical support during campaigns.

On August 5, a new Netflix documentary series dropped titled World’s Most Wanted, which profiles five different dangerous criminals who have been fugitives of the law and eluded authorities for years. One of the five episodes features Félicien Kabuga, a Rwandan businessman who is believed by the authorities to have financially supported, participated in and profited from the Rwandan genocide. The United Nations’ International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Trials (IRMCT)’s case file on Kabuga says he was the president of the National Defense Fund in Rwanda and the president of radio station RTLM during the genocide between April and July 1994. The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) charged him with: “genocide, complicity in genocide, direct and public incitement to commit ...