Finally, the end of the road for a Rwandan genocidal maniac, a man who orchestrated the vicious murder of hundreds of thousands of innocent Tutsis in the 1994 Rwandan genocide. His victims included women, children, hospital-staff and patients, clergy, reverends, priests, the elderly, the maimed and the revered 80-year old African Queen Rosalie Gicanda of Rwanda, a Tutsi; who was killed simply to symbolically send a message that every Tutsis was a fair game - 'cockroaches that must be squashed?' The devil may-care, Chief Idelphonse Nizeyimana, 46, former Rwanda Deputy Intelligence chief and de-facto head of Rwanda's Senior Military Training College during the 1994 genocide, was arrested on Monday October 5, 2009 in a suburb of Kampala, Uganda; pursuant to an indictment from Rwanda war crimes tribunal. The former army captain and member of the then president's inner circle, was flown immediately to face his nemesis before the the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda sitting in Arusha Tanzania. He is charged with genocide, complicity in genocide, and direct and public incitement to commit genocide in the massacre of more than 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus in the 100-day pogrom in 1994 Rwanda. A bounty of $5 million dollars had been placed on his head by the United States of America, which felt elated today that the manhunt is now finally over with this munchkin now behind bars, under lock and key to await justice! According to one source, the icing on the cake of Nizeyimana's capture was that "he was caught like a grasshopper" and without any resistance. 
His capture was dubbed a "major coup" by United Nations' Gregory Alexander, who heads a U.N. team tasked with demobilizing rebels in Congo and repatriating them to Rwanda. Icheoku says, his conviction at the war crimes tribunal is a fait accompli, having previously admitted to his role as an executioner during the infamous genocide. According to one commentator, "He is known for having spoken openly of the 'work' he conducted during the genocide. He is someone who has actually admitted that he is a genocide organizer and executor."
His capture was dubbed a "major coup" by United Nations' Gregory Alexander, who heads a U.N. team tasked with demobilizing rebels in Congo and repatriating them to Rwanda. Icheoku says, his conviction at the war crimes tribunal is a fait accompli, having previously admitted to his role as an executioner during the infamous genocide. According to one commentator, "He is known for having spoken openly of the 'work' he conducted during the genocide. He is someone who has actually admitted that he is a genocide organizer and executor." War criminal Idelphonse Nizeyimana's 23-page rap-sheet, details an escapade wherein he ordered entire Tutsi families to be slaughtered, supplied weapons, ammunition and transportation to militiamen, who carried out his bidding of summary execution of ethnic Tutsis? He also ordered roadblocks set up in Rwanda's province of Butare, where Tutsis were singled out for summary execution. A hungry greedy mongrel, Nizeyimana had made a futile negotiation to turn himself in recently, provided the bounty of $5 million dollars on his head will be given to his family if he surrendered? Icheoku says, what a shameless blood-sucker who wanted to profit from his brigandage and unnecessary spillage of the blood of hundreds of thousands of innocent Tutsis? 
An animal who was rather very scrupulous with his murderous exploits, Nizeyimana would visit Butare-Rwanda hospitals several times each period to ensure that surviving Tutsi patients were swiftly finished-off; and in such a sacred place of healing? Icheoku says, sarcastically though, Nizeyimana was simply a "patriotic" enforcer of note for his people of Hutus? Nizeyimana is the second high-profile genocidal arrest in recent past, following last August's arrest of a former local administrator in Rwanda during the genocide, Gregoire Ndahimana in Congo? Last year, Col. Theoneste Bagosora was captured and sentenced to life imprisonment for his complicity in the 1994 Rwandan genocide.
An animal who was rather very scrupulous with his murderous exploits, Nizeyimana would visit Butare-Rwanda hospitals several times each period to ensure that surviving Tutsi patients were swiftly finished-off; and in such a sacred place of healing? Icheoku says, sarcastically though, Nizeyimana was simply a "patriotic" enforcer of note for his people of Hutus? Nizeyimana is the second high-profile genocidal arrest in recent past, following last August's arrest of a former local administrator in Rwanda during the genocide, Gregoire Ndahimana in Congo? Last year, Col. Theoneste Bagosora was captured and sentenced to life imprisonment for his complicity in the 1994 Rwandan genocide. You may recall that the Rwandan genocide started following the downing of a plane carrying President Juvenal Habyarimana, a Hutu, as it approached Kigali, Rwanda's capital airport. The genocidal madness was finally brought to an end when the present President Paul Kagame led a group of Tutsi rebels to overthrow the Hutu government and restored order in a previously society of lawlessness. Icheoku commends the people of Uganda for taking-off this beast from the society, and pray that like Charles Taylor and other African vampires, that the justice he denied Tutsis will soon be served him; may be a life without the possibility of parole in a maximum prison somewhere in an African desert country, under the intensive African sun!
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