Charles Munyaneza, 68, lives in Bedford, and is a former Rwandan mayor. He is accused of assisting the interahahmwe militia to kill thousands of Tutsis living in his commune, where it is alleged he worked with a notorious military Colonel, Aloys Simba, in committing Genocide.

Celestin Mutabaruka, 70, lives in Ashford, Kent. He was working as the director of a state forestry project in Rwanda in 1994. He is alleged to have been involved in the killings of Tutsi refugees at Gatare in April, and in May to have led interahahmwe militia killers to the hills of Bisesero where operations against Tutsi who had fled to the hills were taking place. Around 40,000 Tutsis died at Bisesero.

Celestin Ugirashebuja, 73, now lives in Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex. He is a former mayor. During the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi he is alleged to have worked with members of his commune staff and gendarmes (police) to kill Tutsi living in the local vicinity, including addressing crowds urging them to do so, and attending roadblocks where killings often took place to check on numbers murdered.

Vincent Bajinya (Brown), 74, lives in Islington, London. He trained as a medical doctor and also worked with the state population control agency. In 1994 Bajinya is alleged to have assisted interahahmwe militia at roadblocks near his house in Kigali and in north west Rwanda, where Tutsis were stopped and hacked to death. He is also alleged to have been directly involved in the killing of a man, woman and her young child.

Emmanuel Nteziryayo, 72, lives in Wythenshawe, South Manchester. In 1994, he was a mayor in Rwanda. He is alleged to have worked with the interahahmwe militia, assisting them in the massacre of thousands of Tutsis, especially at the infamous Murambi massacre. He is said to have ordered their burial in large pits using a digger, and assisted the recruitment of further interahahmwe during the later part of the genocide.