Editor,

RE: "Genocide fugitive extradited from Germany to be charged next week” (The New Times, August 19).

Equally important, the decision by the German authorities to extradite this Genocide suspect to Rwanda, which has been endorsed by German and European courts (and which is the latest in a series of many extraditions from the Netherlands, Sweden, Denmark, Canada, the USA, and many other Western countries), fatally undermines the arguments preferred by UK courts (under the influence of the likes of Human Rights Watch), that they continue to provide a safe harbour for the suspects of the Genocide against the Tutsi because they fear for their rights to a fair trial in the country where they are accused of having committed the supreme crime.

Unless the UK courts are trying to convince us that their concern for due process to protect the rights of the accused is greater than in any of these other countries, their argument is left completely threadbare and can be seen for what it really is: the undue influence of the ‘human rights’ industry on what should be objective justice.

The result, of course, is that British ‘justice’ is turning itself into a figure of ridicule in that it is now seen to be fully entwined with those who are in bed with the worst violators of human rights – genocide perpetrators – while piously (and hypocritically) claiming to be defenders of human rights.

How they can face the moral cul-de-sac into which they have drifted is hard for ordinary global citizens to ken!

Mwene Kalinda