Some 30.000 Rwandans sentenced to community service for their role in the 1994 genocide have disappeared, according to the Rwandan prison authorities. Community service was introduced under a Rwandan law as an alternative to prison for certain categories of genocide perpetrator who confessed. One of the goals was […]
A Rwandan sentenced in Oslo for participation in the 1994 genocide on Tuesday pleaded not guilty as his appeals hearings opened. Sadi Bugingo, now 49, has been living in Norway since 2002. He was sentenced on February 14, 2013 to 21 years in jail, the maximum sentence […]
The French judicial inquiry into Father Wenceslas Munyeshyaka, a Rwandan priest suspected of genocide, is “in its final phase”, according to a report of the Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals (MICT) consulted by Hirondelle on Tuesday. Munyeshyaka’s case was transferred to France in 2007 by the International Criminal […]