Rwanda's President Paul Kagame has
launched a scathing verbal attack on the UK government after the arrest
of his intelligence chief. In his first comments since the arrest,
Mr Kagame said it was a continuation of "colonialism" and accused the
British of "arrogance and contempt". Karenzi Karake was detained at London's Heathrow Airport on Saturday, in response to a European Arrest Warrant. He is accused of ordering massacres in the wake of the 1994 Rwanda genocide. The president said that the British authorities "must have mistaken [Gen Karake] for an illegal immigrant. The way they treat illegal immigrants is the way they treat all of us." He added that the British had been patronising, "wagging a finger at the African and telling him this is where you belong. We are no longer the African that belongs there". Gen Karake is due in court in London shortly.
Credit to BBC.
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