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Abraham Bahaty Bayavuge: War Criminals

Canada Dept: It's been three months since the computer programmer turned fugitive, No. 2 on Canada's list of most-wanted suspected war criminals, has been detained, awaiting his imminent deportation to the Congo, still hoping for an 11th-hour reprieve, according to Montreal Gazette. "Here, everyone is on drugs, or welfare," he laments, in perfect French. "Some are murderers or rapists. But everyone is put in the same bag." Abraham Bahaty Bayavuge sits behind a thick glass partition at the Ottawa Carlton detention centre, shifting nervously in his bright orange jumpsuit. Bayavuge, 49, who was on the lam for four years prior to his arrest in August, is not used to this new routine - sharing a 2 metre by 7 metre cell with a bank robber, 20-minute visits through the glass, the certainty of an uncertain future. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.