Accomplice to Mass Genocide in Rwanda now a Registered Voter in small Alabama town

Has voted in American elections, including three Party Primaries

From Eric Dondero:

David L. Bosco of the Washington Post has an investigative piece "Rwanda's ex-U.N. ambassador, who vanished after genocide, resurfaces in Alabama" April 4. Bosco, after years of research, tracked Damascene Bizimana to a sleepy little town in northern Alabama, Opelika. The town's main claim to fame is that it was the subject of the 1970s Pro-Union movie "Norma Rae" starring Sally Fields.

From WaPo:

Sixteen years later, the Rwandan government is still investigating whether Bizimana supported the genocide in his capacity at the United Nations, according to Andrew Tusabe, a counselor at the Rwandan Embassy in Washington. "Bizimana has not been forgotten," he told me. But he said they had not been able to determine his whereabouts.

It seemed that the ambassador, along with his wife and two small children, had simply vanished -- until he turned up living quietly in the small town of Opelika, Ala., a few miles up the road from Auburn University. He's an American citizen now. He works for a plastics company. And he doesn't want to talk about genocide.

But buried in one of the final paragraphs of the three-page piece is this intriguing note:

Bizimana does not appear inclined to reckon with the past, and legally at least, he has no reason to do so. Opelika records show that he registered to vote in October 2004 and has cast ballots in primaries and general elections since then -- meaning he acquired U.S. citizenship. And as a citizen, he enjoys full due-process rights.

According to the Madison County, AL Register to Vote website, Alabama does not have registration by party. However, one must declare party affiliation to vote in primaries. From MadisonCounty.AL.com:

Registration is not by political party. Only in Primary Elections must you declare your party at the polls. In the November General Election you may vote for any candidate on the ballot - you can either vote a straight party ticket or a split ticket.

To be clear, to participate in a primary Bizimana would have had to declare a party affiliation. Sources reached by Libertarian Republican in Alabama could not disclose Bizimana's political affiliation or indicate if Bizimana voted in the Democrat primaries. The Opelika Clerk's office did confirm he was listed on the voter roll under a different first name.

Given the slant of the Washington Post, if there was any inkling Bizimana had participated in Republican primaries, there's little doubt this would be all over the media.

Is the United Nation's rep. for Rwanda 1994, during one of the worst mass human genocides in history - over 800,000 dead - now a US Democrat?

Note - later reports suggest Bizimana is now seeking political assylum in Ireland.

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