The professor, Leopold Munyakazi, 59, taught French at Goucher College in this city north of Baltimore until he was suspended with pay in December after the college learned that he had been indicted on murder and several genocide-related charges in Rwanda, according to court papers.However, it is worth noting (from Slate):
Dr. Munyakazi was arrested at his home in Towson for overstaying his visa, said Brandon A. Montgomery, an ICE spokesman. Mr. Montgomery said that Dr. Munyakazi was released from custody on the condition that he wear a monitoring device and that he faced a deportation hearing in April.University officials also pointed out that the indictment was prepared a month after Dr. Munyakazi gave a controversial talk in Delaware while he was a professor at Montclair State University in New Jersey. In that speech, Dr. Munyakazi questioned the Rwandan government’s official account of events during the genocide.
“I refer to it as civil war, not genocide; it was about political power,” Dr. Munyakazi said in that speech, according to a University of Deleware news release from October 2006. “Ethnicity is not really understood about Rwanda. In Rwanda there are no tribes. There are social groups. They are one single people.”
Also 'Colored Opinion'Goucher President explains in an open letter that the charges—which Munyakazi denies—were brought to his attention in December by "a producer from NBC News … working on a series about international war criminals who are living in the United States." The producer was accompanied by a Rwandan prosecutor, Ungar adds.
A network series about hunting for war criminals among us?
Sounds strange to my ears—and to those of Ungar, a former journalist and one-time dean of American University's School of Communications. In his open letter, Ungar continues: "Some question the unusual circumstance in which the prosecutor traveled around the United States with a television producer and camera crew, rather than talking with the appropriate U.S. government officials through standard channels."
2 comments:
I think you are jumping to conclusions when you refer to him in the title as a genocidaire. He is accused of it, but he is not a convicted genocidaire. There is no evidence he did anything. He was held for five years and released in Rwanda for lack of evidence. All of a sudden a month after he gave his views on what occured in 1994 all these witnesses come up? Doesn't that seem suspicious to you?
He is just a victim of speaking his mind.
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