Jean-Chrysostome Ndindabahizi was arrested in Gabon over the
weekend on charges of genocide complicity, conspiracy to commit genocide,
public incitement to commit genocide, crimes against humanity, murder,
extermination and creation of criminal gangs.
"His crimes were inciting and preparing the genocide,
drawing lists of Tutsi victims for killing, participating himself in the murder
of Tutsis and also setting up roadblocks," Rwandan state prosecution
spokesman Augustin Nkusi told Reuters.
Ndindabahizi could face trial in Rwanda itself or at the
International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) in Arusha, Tanzania, Nkusi
said, even though he is not on a list of 11 outstanding suspects wanted by the
ICTR.
Nkusi said Ndindabahizi worked as a doctor at the Rwandan
national university in Butare in 1994, and may have been working in the
Gabonese presidency before his arrest.
Gabon denied that and said at the time of his arrest,
Ndindabahizi was working under a false identity at a hospital 11 km outside
Libreville.
The spokesman for the Gabonese presidency, Guy Bertrand
Mapangou, said the West African country did not have any extradition treaty
with Rwanda and that the suspect was handed over to Interpol.
Rwanda will have to go through regular procedures to seek
Ndindabahizi's extradition, he added.
