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1 A Prefecture is roughly equivalent to a State within the United States, and a Commune is roughly equivalent to a county within a state.

2 For many hundreds of years there has been ethnic fighting between Tutsis and Hutus in Rwanda. The Hutus are the ethnic majority in Rwanda and comprised 84% of the population in 1994. At that time Tutsis comprised 14% of the population of Rwanda. Historically, Tutsis have held disproportionate levels of wealth and political power in Rwanda dating back to British Imperialist days and beyond.

3 The Bisesero region is a mountainous region of Rwanda that spans two communes.

4 The record is unclear” as to when the Extraditee arrived in the United States. The Government contends that he’ remained in-Rwanda in the months following the Mugonero attack and led the attacks in the Bisesero region. The Extraditee contends that he fled the Mugonero compound on the morning of April 16, 1394, and did not return to the area. What is undisputed is that at some point the Extraditee was admitted to the United States and was residing here legally when he was arrested

5 This same law authorized the surrender of persons to a similar U.N. tribunal investigating charges of genocide in the former Yugoslavia. The Court expresses no opinion on the Constitutional efficacy of those provisions.

6 Genocide is defined by the Tribunal in U.N. security counsel Resolution 955, Article 2, Paragraph 2 as: “[alny of the following acts committed with the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:

• (a)Willing members of the group;

• (b)Causing serious bodily or mental harm to Members of the group;

• (c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;

• (d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;

• (e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.” The only conceivably applicable section to the allegation that the Extraditee ordered that a roof be taken off of a church is (c).The Court cannot say in good conscience that, assuming as the Court must that the event occurred, taking the roof off of one church is inflicting conditions on the Tutsis calculated to bring about their physical destruction.