Aetiology: Death penalty out in Rwanda blogs
Aetiology: Death penalty out in Rwanda blogs
Death penalty out in Rwanda
Rwanda's parliament voted late on Friday to abolish the death penalty, a move that should clear the way for suspects in the 1994 genocide to be extradited back to Rwanda.You might think that survivors of such a horrible genocide would want to see those who victimized them put to death, but the president of a group of survivors says otherwise:Survivors of the slaughter welcomed the decision, noting that the death penalty had existed in Rwandan law before the genocide."It didn't deter people from picking up machetes to slaughter their fellows - that's why we are not bothered by its removal," said Theodore Simburudali, president of the Ibuka genocide survivors' group........
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