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CPCR’s submission to the UN Human Rights Council

  United Nations Human Rights Council Universal Periodic Review: Republic of France 29th Session of the Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review 15 JANUARY 2018 Submission of THE Collectif des Parties Civiles pour le Rwanda The Collectif des Parties Civiles pour le Rwanda (‘CPCR’) is a non-governmental organisation located at 61 Avenue Jean Jaurès, 51100 Reims, France. (Contact details: Alain Gauthier, +33 (0) 6 40 57 09 44, cpcr@protonmail.com).i Established in 2001, CPCR’s main objective is to pursue those suspected of having participated in the Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda in 1994 (‘Genocide’) and who reside on French …

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Strike while the iron is still hot : letter to the new French President.

Letter to Mr Emmanuel MACRON, President of France, on the 14 May 2017. Mr. President, You have just been elected to the Presidency, and this is why I, as the chairman of the CPCR (the Collective of Civil Parties for Rwanda) would like to address these few words to you. The association, created in 2001, aims to prosecute those living on French territory who are suspected of having participated in the Tutsis genocide in Rwanda in 1994. I do so on behalf of hundreds of thousands of victims whose cause we support. At the beginning of the election campaign, I …

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Appeal trial of SIMBIKANGWA. Tuesday 25fth of October 2016. D1.

The appeal trial of Pascal SIMBIKANGWA opened this morning at then Assizes Court of Bobigny. The media has spread the word : no one is there, almost. It is true that “the Tutsi genocide does not interest anyone”. The morning began with a brief examination of the identity of the accused. Then the President of the Court, Mr. Régis De JORNA, conducted a draw for 9 holder jurors and 5 alternate jurors who were then sworn in. The morning ended with the mention of the associations bringing the civil suits : the CPCR, FIDH, LDH, SURVIE and LICRA. A good …

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