Fulgence Kayishema, one of four remaining fugitives sought for their role in the 1994 Rwanda genocide, has been arrested in South Africa according to United Nations investigators.
Fulgence Kayishema, one of four remaining fugitives sought for their role in the 1994 Rwanda genocide, has been arrested in South Africa, UN investigators said on Thursday. ulgence Kayishema, one of four remaining fugitives sought for their role in the 1994 Rwanda genocide, has been arrested in South Africa, United Nations investigators said on Thursday.
He has been on the run since July 2001, according to the MICT website, which gives his year of birth as 1961. “Kayishema and others then supervised the transfer of corpses from the church grounds into mass graves.”The MICT in 2015 took over the work of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda , which the United Nations had set up following the genocide.
These included family members, members of the former Rwandan armed forces, the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda rebel group “and those aligned with the genocidal Hutu Power ideology”. The ICTR court sentenced 62 people, including a 30-year term handed to former minister Augustin Ngirabatware, and acquitted 14.In September 2022, one of Rwanda’s richest men before the genocide, Felicien Kabuga, who moved to France under a false identity, went on trial in The Hague. Ahishakiye pointed to the problems in getting Kabuga on trial to stress the need for timely justice.
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