Next, an editorial reflecting the Views of the U.S. Government.
接下来是一篇反映美国政府观点的社论。
After more than four decades on the run, one of the world’s most wanted men, 84-year-old Felicien Kabuga, was arrested on May 16 by the French Police near Paris.
Kabuga was a key figure in the Rwandan genocide, which began on April 7, 1994, one day after a plane carrying Rwandan President Juvenal Habyarimana and Burundian President Cyprien Ntaryamira, both Hutus, was shot down, with all on board killed.
Hutu extremists accused a Tutsi rebel group, the Rwandan Patriotic Front, of being behind the attack and immediately began a campaign of mass killings of members of the Tutsi and Twa ethnic groups, as well as moderate Hutus.
The slaughter was thoroughly planned and well-organized.
这场屠杀计划周密,组织严密。
Militias were given hit lists of Tutsi and murdered many of their victims with machetes in acts of appalling brutality.
民兵们收到了对图西人的袭击名单,并用砍刀杀害了许多受害者,堪称骇人听闻的暴行。
By the time the genocide ended on July 15, 1994, some 800,000 Rwandans had been murdered, including about 70 percent of the country's Tutsi population.
到1994年7月15日大屠杀结束时,大约80万卢旺达人被谋杀,其中包括该国图西族人口的70%。
Felicien Kabuga, one of the country’s wealthiest men and founder of Radio Télévision Libre des Milles Collines, had been a member of President Habyarimana’s inner circle.
菲利希安·卡布贾是该国最富有的人之一,也是Tévision Libre des Milles Collines电台的创办人,他曾是哈比亚利马纳总统核心圈子的成员。
He is accused of financing and helping to plan the genocidal killings, importing large quantities of weapons, and directing the Radio Télévision Libre des Milles Collines, which helped incite the genocide.
他被控资助和帮助策划大屠杀,进口大量武器,并指挥帮助煽动大屠杀的Libre des Milles Collines电台。
For these and other crimes, Kabuga was indicted in 1997 by the UN International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda on seven counts of
1997年,联合国卢旺达问题国际刑事法庭就七项罪名对卡布贾提起公诉,
genocide, complicity in genocide, direct and public incitement to commit genocide, attempt to commit genocide, and conspiracy to commit genocide, persecution and extermination.
The United States offered a $5 million bounty for information leading to Kabuga’s arrest.
美国悬赏500万美元获取导致卡布贾被捕的情报。
“We applaud the Government of France and the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals for the arrest of Félicien Kabuga,” said U.S. State Department Spokesperson Morgan Ortagus in a written statement.
“We commend law enforcement officials worldwide who contributed to the arrest.
“我们赞扬全世界参与逮捕的执法官员。
This is a milestone for international justice, and a message to all fugitives indicted for genocide that they will be brought to justice.
这是国际司法的一个里程碑,也是向所有被控犯有种族灭绝罪的逃犯发出的一个信息,即他们将被绳之以法。
We hope this arrest brings the victims and their families some peace.”
我们希望这次逮捕能给受害者及其家人带来一些安宁。”
The United States continues to offer rewards of up to $5 million for information leading to the arrest of the remaining seven Rwandans wanted by the International Tribunal for their roles in the genocide: Augustin Bizimana, Protais Mpiranya, Fulgence Kayishema, Aloys Ndimbati, Pheneas Munyarugarama, Charles Sikubwabo, and Charles Ryandikayo.
If you have any information on their whereabouts, you can contact the War Crimes Rewards Program via email at wcrp@state.gov or via WhatsApp at +1-202-975-5468.