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BREAKING NEWS – JULY 2025 : KWIBUKA (‘Remembrance’) 31

WILL the 5 UK Rwandan Genocide suspects living happily on tax payer pensions and benefits finally face trial in 2025? – UK police were back in Rwanda in February gathering yet more evidence, while rumours have it the CPS is AT LAST preparing for a trial (the first) of just ONE of the accused at the Old Bailey in August 2025. It seems the genocide suspects MAY face justice one at a time – if they all live long enough – and the CPS does not botch the prosecution as it did the extradition cases. Rj4G will be closely following every step…
Meanwhile no word about the 70 year old Rwandan genocide suspect arrested in Gateshead 18 months ago – Met police refuse to give further information including his name – though it is well known. More delayed justice…

FULGENCE KAYISHEMA – Cape Town, July 2025 – his band of top grade international defence lawyers are continuing to block any sniff of justice touching their client. This last fugitive, arrested two years ago in South Africa, remains in detention there while his prolific lawyers Kate Gibson (same London Doughty Street legal chambers as Kier Starmer when he helped block removal one of the UK extradition genocide suspects) and Canadian Philippe Larochelle are using every possible legal avenue to block Kayishema being sent to Kigali to face trial for the murder of thousands at Nyange Church. In June 2025 his lawyer filed for a full UN trial court to be formed (at huge expense) just to revoke an earlier judgement that Kayishema’s case should be heard in Rwanda and not by the Mechanism in Arusha. They want the case shelved until March 2026 while they play off the South Africa legal issues/prosecutor against the UN/International one… Their latest ruse for more time – alleging their client is being stalked in prison by a Rwandan government-sent death squad!!! And obviously demanding they start getting paid top dollar for representing Kayishema… Kayishema’s alleged crimes (along with ICTR convicted genocidaire Fr. Athanase Seromba) killing 2,000+ men, women, children and babies by bulldozing a church on top of them can be read about here in Seromba’s court judgment.

FELICIEN KAGUGA – May/June 2025 – Who wants to give a happy new home to this key genocide suspect? the International Court (Mechanism) in The Hague STILL can’t find a way to rid itself of this highly expensive key genocide suspect. Having ruled in Sept 2023 he was too ill/old for his trial to continue, Kabuga has remained in UN medical detention facilities because no country (i.e. France/Belgium/the UK where he has family) wants him. Given he lived secretly in central Paris for several years until his arrest in 2020 this is somewhat ironic. Kabuga refuses to go to Rwanda (which does want him), and doctors say he is ‘unfit’ for the ‘long’ 8 hour flight…. all of which leads to further millions of Euros in UN taxpayer medical/legal fees in looking after Kabuga, (former President of Hutu hate radio RTLM and key funder of the interahahmwe militia at the heart of the genocide). Yet another case of international justice replaced by a cosy, paid-for international retirement…? It’s sincerely hoped the Kabuga farce is ringing very loud bells for UK Labour politicians…

UN Prosecutor – April 2025 – declares its last two genocide suspects are dead – all its remaining fugitives have now been accounted for, 31 years after the genocide against the Tutsi. On April 9 the Prosecutor filed a statement that according to investigations Charles Sikubwabo – a former soldier and mayor of Gishyita (Kibuye) and wanted for his role in facilitating mass murder of Tutsi in Kibuye town, had actually died after fleeing to Chad in 1998. Businessman Ryandikayo, the other remaining fugitive suspected of committing genocide in Gishyita commune  and the hills of Bisesero, was confirmed to have died in Kinshasa (DRC) in 1998.

PETER ROBINSON: a judge has finally ruled in the case against the prolific genocide defence attorney – suspected of corruption not least of which is breaking protected witness confidentiality and using false statements in trials… the case has rumbled on for several years already and looks set for several more…

PHILIPPE HATEGEKIMANA – GUILTY! 17 December 2024, Paris; former gendarme HATEGEKIMANA had his life sentence for genocide upheld by the assize court after a six week appeal hearing; he showed no emotion as the verdict was read by the judge who noted Hategekimana had taken an active part in the murder of the elderly, women and children and was a ‘zealous arm’ of the slaughter. More reaction HERE

GENOCIDE DENIER CHARLES ONANA was found guilty by a French court on 9 December 2024, for ‘trivialising… in an outrageous manner’ the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi. He and his publishing director Damien Serieyx from the company Éditions du Toucan were fined 11,000 Euro. The court verdict noted that France would ‘no longer be a haven for denialists’. Onana has made a lucrative living out of downplaying and revising the historical truth about the genocide, selling books and articles laden with his own conspiracy theories. Sadly he is not alone, but this verdict may give him and those who publish/promote his self publicising rubbish a little cause for thought – if they are capable of that.

FELICIEN KABUGA: 29 October, The UN Mechanism has officially refused to give the alleged financier of the genocide a pleasant retirement at a ‘safe house’ in The Hague. After UN judges aborted Kabuga’s trial in September 2023 amidst claims the 88 (or 90) year old was too senile for it to continue, his family have been expending much energy on getting him released from the comfortable and highly expensive UN medical detention families where is currently stays.

Eugene RWAMUCYO 31 October, Paris: GUILTY!! The former Butare doctor, who fled to France in 2001, was sentenced last night to 27 years for complicity in genocide and participation in an agreement to commit genocide… Having avoided justice for 17 years, Rwamucyo will finally have time in prison to contemplate the immense suffering his actions caused.
A daily report from the trial available HERE and the trial summing up and verdict account HERE
Survivors HERE speak of their need for justice. Thanks to the French NGO the CPCR whose tireless efforts have brought Rwamucyo to book and who cover the trial in detail as well as taking part in the legal action.

Emmanuel NKUNDUWIMYE, Brussels Assize Court, Belgium, 10 June 2024 – GUILTY: Nkunduwimye, a close friend of Paul Rusesabagina (who refused to come and testify from his luxury home in the USA) and interahahmwe deputy leader Georges Rutaganda, was found guilty on Wednesday 5 June of war crimes, genocide, attempted murder and rape. He was sentenced to 25 years prison on Monday 10 June. The court heard testimony read out against him by former interahahmwe treasurer Dieudonne Niyitegeka (now in Canada) who described Nkunduwimye as a ‘thief and rogue’ who organised killings, attacks on women and stole property to make a quick profit.

FULGENCE KAYISHEMA – Cape Town, South Africa, 4 June 2024. Kayishema’s lawyers have made another attempt to prolong his illegal stay in South Africa and avoid his being transferred to the UN Mechanism in Arusha from where he faces being sent to Rwanda to stand trial. Mechanism prosecutors have cited South Africa for failing to transfer him – as is their obligation as a member of the UN. He has now spent over a year in South African custody and clearly aims to avoid justice – especially if it is in Rwanda. In Kayishema’s previous court appearances the focus has been on the 56 counts of immigration fraud against him. Kayishema is accused of killing of 2,000 Tutsi refugees at Nyange church in collusion with the Catholic priest Fr Athanase Seromba, who is already serving life prison for the horrific crime.

GATESHEAD, UK, 25 January 2024, UK Counter Terrorism Policing War Crimes Team arrested a 69 year-old Rwandan on suspicion of involvement in the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi – he is the first UK suspect to be arrested for more than 10 years but is yet to be named officially. The suspect has been bailed while investigations continue after being questioned in Newcastle. One can only hope that the Met Police do not take countless years investigating as they have done with the case of the 5 alleged genocidaire who have avoided justice for nearly two decades…The suspect is still to be named officially, though his identity is well-known locally and to RG4G..

Anatole NSENGIYUMVA, Niamey, Niger 7 May, 2024 – the butcher of Gisenyi is dead! The 74 year old former Lt. Col, Nsengiyumva was admitted to hospital on 6th May but died the following day. The convicted genocidaire, known for headlining the leadership of the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in collusion with Col. Theoneste Bagosora, had been one of seven former ICTR detainees living in UN-funded retirement in Niger having failed to convince any other country – notably France or Belgium – to allow them a residence permit. Few will shed tears for a man whose life’s work was to bring innate sorrow, grief and horror to hundreds of thousands of innocent people.

FABIEN NERETSE – Liege, Belgium, 9 April 2024 – Time has run out for Neretse, who has died in hospital, having been transferred there from prison where he was serving 25 years for genocide/murder after a much-delayed trial in 2019. Neretse had fled initially to France under an assumed name, before moving to Belgium. In a final act of viciousness to his many victims, his family chose to quote the (wrongly attributed) biblical verse from 2 Timothy 4, 7 on the death notice that pictured the smiling killer: ‘I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. Now there is in store for me the crown of righteousness,’ Readers can make up their own mind on the current destination of this genocidaire .

FRODUALD RUKESHANGABO AND CELESTIN MUNYABURANGO, Brisbane, Australia, 25 February 2024 – two suspected genocide killers have been identified as living happily in Australia after media there tracked them down. RUKESHANGABO, now working as a driving instructor in Brisbane, is alleged to have been part of Hutu militia that tracked down Tutsi before hacking them to death. Former head teacher MUNYABURANGO is said to have killed 21 Tutsi – his whereabouts in unknown but he is thought to be in Brisbane too where his relations live. A documentary by ABC ‘The Wanted’ on how the media tracked down the two suspect is available HERE

PIERRE BASABOSE and SERAPHIN TWAHIRWA – Brussels Assize Court, 21 December 2023, GUILTY! The ‘King of Evil’, Seraphin Twahirwa, has been sentenced to life in prison after a two month trial for acts of unfathomable cruelty and depravity, including the mass rape of Tutsi women, murdering babies and whole families. Witnesses gave truly horrific evidence, recalling how this butcher personally killed a woman pregnant with twins, His ‘boss’ Basabose will be held for life in a secure unit for his own terrible crimes – senile dementia having saved him from prison.

SOSTHENE MUNYEMANA – Paris Assize Court, 20 December 2023 – GUILTY! Twenty-eight years after the first criminal complaint was made in France against him, the former gynaecologist from Butare and Bordeaux – the so-called ‘Butcher of Tumba’ – has been pronounced guilty of genocide and crimes against humanity. Munyemana was sentenced to 24 years. The court President noted Munyemana had ‘prepared, organised and steered the genocide of the Tutsis in Tumba on a daily basis’. More on this story here. Daily trial reports can be read HERE.

Laurent BUCYIBARUTA: Saint-André-les-Vergers, France, 6 December 2023. The 79 year-old convicted genocidaire and former Prefect of Gikongoro, is dead. Despite being found guilty of horrific crimes at his trial in Paris in July 2022, he was enjoying freedom again awaiting his appeal. It took 22 years for French justice to catch up with him.

UN SECURITY COUNCIL, 12 December 2023 – The yearly report of the UN Mechanism President Graciela Gatti Santana to the UNSC members, and surrounding debate, took place with Prosecutor Serge Brammertz expressing his ‘immense dissatisfaction’ that Felicien Kabuga has avoided judgement for his alleged role in the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi. Rwanda’s delegate noted that help was needed by the international community to bring more than 1,000 suspected genocidaire to justice – many of them still free and living happily in the west.

MIKAELI MUHIMANA, Mali, 26 October: 2023 The 62 year old former counseiller of Gishyita commune, Kibuye, has died while serving his life sentence in Mali. His trial in 2005 at the ICTR heard how Muhimana raped and tortured many Tutsi girls – including disembowelling a pregnant woman, removing the baby which cried for a time before dying – also beheading a man whose head he then publicly paraded. He was found guilty of genocide, rape and murder.

PIERRE KAYONDO: Paris, 19 September 2023: The former prefect of Kibuye and deputy prefect of Gitarama was arrested and put in investigative detention as French authorities look into charges he committed genocide. It follows a complaint by survivors and the NGO CPCR against him in 2021.

SYLVESTRE GACUMBITSI, Mali, 10 September: 2023 the 80 year old died in prison where he was serving life for his horrific crimes – notably at Nyarubuye church – where the aftermath of the massacre of thousands of Tutsis was filmed by BBC journalist Fergal Keane. On 4 July ALOYS SIMBA, convicted for genocide but controversially released early after serving just 18 years for his genocidal role, died in Porto-Novo, Benin.

FELICIEN KABUGA: The Hague, 7 August 2023: UN Appeal Court overrules its trial court and decides that no trial of any form can go ahead and the man accused of playing a leading part in the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi should be free to die happily in his own bed – the question now is to find a state that will take him.

PHILIPPE HATEGEKIMANA – Paris, 28 June 2023 – is found guilty of genocide at Assize Court and sentenced to life in prison. His trial heard horrific, heart-breaking testimony over 6 weeks of his murderous crimes that took place in and around Nyanza in April/May 1994.

THARCISSE MUVUNYI, Niger, 11 June 2023 – the genocidaire and former Rwandan army Colonel died at his UN-funded accommodation in Niger. He was the only suspect ever to be extradited by the UK. Muvunyi had been freed early by the ICTR from his 15 year sentence for inciting genocide, and was one of 8 former detainees currently living at full UN taxpayer expense in Niger.

Major JEAN-PIERRE KARANGWA: on 6 June the Netherlands Supreme Court, refused his extradition – after 25 in the country will they now put him on trial themselves or continue impunity?

JEAN-MARIE VIANNEY NZAPFAKUMUNSI: June 2023 – French newspaper Liberation incredibly uncovers the alleged role and whereabouts of this former colonel who has lived freely in France for 25 years, having gained citizenship and changing his name to Munsy. Witnesses point to his complicity in the 2,000 murdered at Nyange – a crime fellow accused Fulgence Kayishema is fighting hard also not to face justice for …

Westminster, UK: 6 June 2023: UK Parliamentarians hear the Rwandan High Commissioner tell them that the UK’s ‘man-made impunity’ needs to be defeated – politics and words must give way to justice after 17 years of legal failure.