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Eugène Rwamucyo
25.03.2021
Facts
Eugène Rwamucyo is a Rwandan citizen. He was the head of the Center of Public Health of the University of Butare, Rwanda, during the genocide in 1994. He is accused of having supervised the burial of Tutsi victims and of finishing off those already injured in the Butare prefecture.
Procedure
On 23 April 2007, the Collectif des parties civiles p...
Christophe Ndangali
19.03.2021
Facts
Christophe Ndangali was a teacher and intellectual in Rwanda during the 1994 genocide. He allegedly participated in the exclusion of Tutsis from the school system and called for the extermination of Tutsis.
Procedure
Ndangali and two other suspects were charged in Belgium with serious violations of international humanitarian law on 30 September 2020. Ndangal...
Séraphin Twahirwa
19.03.2021
Facts
Séraphin Twahirwa led an Interahamwe militia (the youth organization of the National Republican Movement for Democracy and Development) during the 1994 genocide. The militia is allegedly responsible for massacres of Tutsis in a central region of the country.
Procedure
Twahirwa and two other suspects were charged with serious violations of international humani...
Pierre Basabose
19.03.2021 - (Last modified: 07.04.2021)
Facts
Pierre Basabose is a businessman who was close to the Rwandan government during the 1994 genocide. He is suspected of having financed genocidal propaganda.
Procedure
Basabose and two other suspects were charged with serious violations of international humanitarian law on 30 September 2020. Basabose is currently detained in Belgium. He will be tried in Belgium...
TRIAL delivers its first regional training session for African Great Lakes lawyers
22.10.2018 - (Last modified: 20.03.2019)Philippe Hategekimana (Philippe Manier)
18.04.2018 - (Last modified: 25.03.2021)
Facts
Philippe Hategekimana, alias Biguma, is a former police officer from the Nyanza commune near Butare in southern Rwanda.
He is suspected of having participated in genocide of Tutsis in Rwanda in 1994. He was allegedly involved in the organisation and commission of multiple atrocities in Nyanza and the surrounding villages in April 1994. He is also suspected o...