Needed: Projects for 8,000 genocide convicts set for release soon
Some genocide convicts were sentenced with community service known as TIG instead of jail terms. The government faces the daunting task of integrating them back to society once they are released. PHOTO | CYRIL NDEGEYA
The government faces a tough task of integrating back to society the increasing number of genocide convicts who are set to complete their sentence terms soon.
As the country commemorates 25 years after the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi, officials at Ibuka, the umbrella organisation of Genocide survivors said there is a need for programmes to manage the transfer of over 8,000 genocide convicts, alongside hundreds of individuals sentenced for crimes like genocide ideology and divisionism who are set for release in the next four years.
The statistics show that genocide convicts getting out of prisons will increase to 1,496, 3,620 and 2,012 people in 2021, 2022 and 2023 respectively.
