The Great Lakes Human Rights Link is seriously concerned with the continued extrajudicial killing of innocent people in Rwanda by the Police.   “Abasore babili barashwe n’ abapolisi bahita bapfa” The Police spokesperson CSP Celestin Twahirwa, said that Eric Ndagijimana and Jean Luc Dusenge were shot when they tried to escape after being arrested on the charges of Motor Cycle theft

Rwanda-Police

“Umuvugizi wa Polisi y’u Rwanda yatangaje ko aba basore uko ari babili, Eric Ndagijimana na Jean Luc Dusenge barashwe ubwo bageragezaga gutoroka, nyuma y’ uko batawe muri yombi bashinjwa kwambura ipikipiki umumotari bakanamukubita bikomeye”

This massacre has just taken place a week after Dr. Gasakure was also murdered in the cold blood in the same manner. Another inmate in Musanze(Ruhengeri) was murdered  by the same police responsible to protect him. Following the failures of the Rwandan government and other civil Rights Societies to bring charges against the police officers who killed Dr. Gasakure and others, we urge the government to take serious measures to train its officers so that, they should not use firearms against people “except in self-defense or defense of others against the imminent threat of death or serious injury.”

Disproportionate use of force by Rwanda Police forces against innocent people, including deliberate brutality and the use of live ammunition, has previously been reported by the Great Lakes Human Rights Link in many parts of the country. The Rwanda government should put a stop to any police abuse and honor its commitment to protect its citizens, to promptly arrest those officers who have acted outside the law; a lasting solution to stop these extrajudicial killings in Rwanda is long overdue.

Gerald Odoi