Desire Munyaneza, Rwanda war criminal, should be set free

The trial started two years ago and finally ends in a conviction. I trust Frank Chalk, director of the Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies, has his heart in the right place but I beg to differ with his early statement:

He said Rwanda has considered removing capital punishment, but some of those convicted in early genocide trials were executed.

“In some cases it’s not feasible to send them back to their home countries for a variety of reasons, so we needed a law like this,” said Chalk, who teaches history at Concordia University.

“We need to demonstrate to future potential perpetrators of crimes against humanity that they can never find a safe haven in Canada.”

See, now that Desire Munyaneza is convicted, he is finally getting the safest haven in the world: a Canadian prison. He can not ask for anything better.

Desire Munyaneza should be set free but his photograph, name and address should be made public knowledge. Enough money has been spent on his war crimes trial. I reckon no more money needs to be spent after the public hears stuff like this:

Dozens of witnesses said he helped kill dozens of Rwandans during the 1994 bloodbath that claimed some 800,000 lives, mostly Tutsi. In one episode, the trial was told that he helped place children in sacks to be beaten to death.

Mr. Munyaneza, then 27, ran a store owned by his father in Butaré in southern Rwanda. The store ordered 2,304 machetes from a wholesaler months before the massacre. The court heard that Mr. Munyaneza helped pass them out as the killings began.

or other monstrosities like this:

The court was told that Munyaneza, the son of a wealthy Hutu beer distributor, set up roadblocks in southern Rwanda to select Tutsis and moderate Hutu as victims based on their ethnicity or allegiances.

One man who was imprisoned in Rwanda for his own role in the genocide testified that Munyaneza orchestrated the massacre of between 300 and 400 Tutsis in a church.