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Rwanda frees 36,000 inmates, most genocide suspects
Published in Saudi Press Agency on 02 - 07 - 2005

Thousands of Rwandan prisoners began streaming out of jail on Friday, following a government decision to free 36,000 inmates, the majority of whom have confessed to taking part in the country's 1994 genocide.
The cabinet approved the provisional mass release on Wednesday in a bid to unclog the tiny central African country's jails which are overflowing with more than 80,000 inmates.
The prisoners being released -- many of whom will now face traditional courts in their home communities -- include the sick, elderly and people who were minors when first jailed.
Officials said nine out of 10 prisoners to be freed have confessed to, but did not plan, the massacre of 800,000 minority Tutsis and politically moderate Hutus in 1994.
"To me this is a miracle from God," Mariana Kakuze said, leaving a prison in the capital Kigali on Friday.
Born in 1927, she had served 10 years in jail accused of killing two Tutsi neighbours during the genocide.
"I had lost hope of leaving this prison," she told Reuters outside the high-walled jail surrounded by barbed wire.
The mass release is likely to enrage genocide survivors who witnessed the release of up to 24,000 inmates in 2003 and another 4,000 last year. About 29,000 were due to be released on Friday and the remaining 7,000 next week.
--mor 1326 Local Time 1026 GMT


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