News Source: Sydney Morning Herald
| about 1 month ago
A suspect accused of forming secret death squads and orchestrating the killings of thousands during Rwanda's 1994 genocide has pleaded not guilty to war crimes. Idelphonse Nizeyimana, former deputy intelligence chief of Rwanda, entered his plea at...
News Source: Androscoggin News
| about 1 month ago
Rwanda-Burundi to Sign Extradition Treaty James Karuhanga 15 October 2009 Kigali — Rwanda is set to sign an extradition treaty with Burundi, in a move that could pave way for the arrest of suspects at large who are linked to the 1994 Genocide...
News Source: Al Jazeera
| about 1 month ago
Nizeyimana was an intelligence chief at the time of the genocide. He is accused of ordering the killing of children, hospital patients, priests and even an elderly and revered African queen. He had been on the run for 15 years with a $5m bounty...
News Source: BBC
| about 1 month ago
He was an intelligence chief at the time of the genocide, in which some 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus died. Mr Nizeyimana is accused of organising the killing of thousands, including the former Tutsi queen. He was arrested last week in Uganda and...
News Source: Daily Nation
| about 1 month ago
The prosecution side alleged that as a military commander in Butare area, when the tiny but densely populated state plunged into orgy of bloodshed in 1994, he ordered the extermination of members of the Tutsi ethnic group and their sympathisers.
News Source: Reuters
| about 1 month ago
Arusha has charged Idelphonse Nizeyimana with genocide, complicity in genocide, direct and public incitement to commit genocide and crimes against humanity. He was arrested in Uganda on October 5 after entering the country by bus from Democratic...