A/HRC/4/41 page 75 Rwanda Number of outstanding cases at the beginning of the period under review 22 Cases transmitted to the Government during the period under review Cases sent under Cases sent under the urgent action the standard procedure procedure 0 Number of cases on which the Government has replied 22 0 Cases clarified during the period under review by: Government Non-governmental sources 0 Multiple replies on some cases General allegation Prompt intervention letter Working Group request for a visit Yes N/A N/A N/A 0 Number of outstanding cases at the end of the year under review 22 Number of cases of possible clarification by Government (6-month rule) N/A Government response Government response Government response N/A N/A N/A Information from the Government 362. The Government of Rwanda replied to the Working Group on 22 cases. The Government indicated that in most cases, the subject was “not known” and requested more information. The Working Group did not consider the responses provided by the Government regarding any of these cases sufficient to constitute clarifications. Information from sources 363. New information was provided about the case of a man who disappeared in 2003 in Kigali. He had been a member of the National Assembly until it was dissolved in May 2003. In 2003 and 2004, the Governing Council of the Inter-Parliamentary Union adopted a resolution on this case, which it continues to follow. Meetings 364. At its eightieth session, the Working Group met with an NGO representative to discuss cases from Rwanda. Summary of the situation prior to the period under review 365. Most of the 22 outstanding cases transmitted in the past occurred between 1990 and 1996. These included five cases which occurred in 1990 and 1991 in the north of the country in the context of the ethnic conflict between Tutsis and Hutus, and one case of a citizen of the Democratic Republic of the Congo who was allegedly arrested at the border between Rwanda and Uganda. The disappearances were attributed to the Armed Forces, the gendarmerie nationale and the Rwandese Patriotic Army. 366. In accordance with its methods of work, the Working Group sent to the Government of Rwanda copies of cases listed under the Democratic Republic of the Congo of 18 Rwandan refugees and a professor who reportedly disappeared in the Democratic Republic of the Congo at the hands of Rwandan soldiers.