1. The present report is full of vague assumptions such as “probably,” “it is alleged,” “people said”, “neighbours said” etc... No single evidence is brought forward to substantiate your presumption.

Therefore, it is clear that your report is just a compilation of hear says, instead of factual evidence. Why didn't your office carry out thorough investigation and come out with evidence ? Why did it publish such an inconclusive investigation which amounts to rumours ?

2. Your report covers the period from January to May 1996. During the same period, many other “non-survivors” were massacred either by RPF or unidentified elements. The recent report released by the UNDP office in Kigali talks about over 250 people killed only in April and May 1996, among which around 200 were killed by RPA.

Why doesn't your report utter any word about it ? Do you mean that all those victims were not human being simply because they don't fall under “genocide survivors”?In any case,who is not "survivor" in Rwanda after what the country went through ?

3. Your report talks about so called “death lists” having been published in mysterious newspapers in Zaire, whose copies were handed over to the victims. First of, it is said that RPA has opened up an investigation and nowhere does your report share with the public the conclusion of that investigation. How do you give credit to such uninvestigated rumours ? What if the outcome of the ongoing investigation proves the contrary ?

Besides, if your reported “death lists” are not ghost, which “interahamwe or member of former RGF”, however stupid he may be, can first alert his victim, if he really intend to get rid of him ? Aren't those lists, either faked ones, or just a figment of the imagination of some of your staff ? Could you tell the public the names of those newspapers and the exact issue, so that one can cross-check for himself ?

4. Where does your report differ from the one released by African Rights in April 1996, and whose claims have never been evidenced ?

5. You are stating without any slight evidence that þ the perpetrators are coming from refugee camps in Zaire. Yet, among the suspects so far arrested you don't mention any refugee. Don't you think that yours is a very serious and defamatory assertion?

6. In a number of accounts, you are simply quoting RPA sources as if they are the most trustworthy people. Why don't you carry out your own investigation instead of relying on hear says ? What else do you expect from RPA ?

7. We hear that your office has opened inquiries into the massacres of Muramba, Kivumu, Bugarama, Kanama and probably Kibeho ? Have you ever made public any conclusive report about the same ? Could we expect them any time soon?

I do sympathise with the genocide survivors and do have concerns about the ongoing spate of violence in Rwanda. But it would be far fetched to say that genocide survivors are more targeted than others, given the number of the victims. Your duty being different from the one of the investigations of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, you are expected to look into all the violations of human rights, irrespective of the identity of the victims.