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Protest as Rwandan suspect Kabuye set to be taken to France

(19 Nov 2008) SHOTLIST 1. Wide shot, crowd of people walking up street 2. Placard reading: "FRANCE: STOP ATTEMPTS TO BLUR ROLE IN GENOCIDE" 3. Crowd of people waving Rwandan flags and placards 4. SOUNDBITE: (English) Protester (no name given), Voxpop "We are not against the European countries at all. We are against the French government that is taking baseless decisions against the Rwandans, our Rwandan officials." 5. Pan of crowd dancing and singing 6. Boy dancing and singing in crowd 7. SOUNDBITE: (English) Protester (no name given), Voxpop "If you look at a country like Germany, and you think about Rose. Germany is a place where people who committed genocide are staying comfortably. They're being fed. They have houses and cars. They're living as diplomats. But Rose who is on diplomatic duty is being arrested for nothing at all. It's a shame." 8. Crowd of protesters moving up street 9. Police in riot gear watching crowd 10. Various, man leading crowd in chant 11. Helicopter flying above STORYLINE: A top Rwandan official sought in connection with the assassination that sparked the African nation's 1994 genocide was flown on Wednesday to France, a case that has strained relations between the two countries. Rose Kabuye, who is chief of protocol for Rwanda's president, was flown to Paris in the company of French police, German prosecutors' spokesman Hildegard Becker-Toussaint told The Associated Press. On Wednesday, tens of thousands of Rwandans held protests against Kabuye's arrest. In the capital Kigali, protesters converged at the German Embassy and the offices of German media broadcaster, Deutsche Welle, holding banners and placards as police in riot gear carrying batons and shields watched. Kabuye was arrested on November 9 at Frankfurt International Airport on a warrant from France, where she is wanted in connection with the April 1994 attack on a plane that killed then-Rwandan President Juvenal Habyarimana. French authorities, who are investigating the attack because the two pilots were French, suspect that Kabuye housed the Tutsi commando unit blamed for shooting down the president's plane. Kabuye's lawyer, Lef Forster, said she denies involvement. A French judge issued warrants for Kabuye and eight other associates of Rwandan President Paul Kagame in connection with the plane crash, which set off 100 days of ethnic slaughter in the Central African country. Hutu extremists killed more than 500,000 people, mostly minority Tutsis before rebels under Kagame drove them from the country. His government claims that France armed the Hutu militias and former government troops who led the genocide. France and Rwanda have frequently sparred over the genocide, with Rwanda severing diplomatic relations after a French investigating judge accused Kagame of ordering the 1994 assassination of Habyarimana. Both nations have since restored ties, and French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner visited Rwanda in January. Last week, Kagame accused French authorities of breaking international law by ordering Kabuye's arrest. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...