Current Genocide Cases
This section highlights the on-going and very recently completed investigations and trials of Rwandan genocide suspects or related cases, currently taking place. These are, for the most part, either at the United Nations Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (UNIRMCT) in The Hague/Arusha, or in European national courts such as in Paris or Brussels. It also includes cases where former ICTR detainees are involved.
An overview of international justice and the genocide against the Tutsi gives a sense of the enormity of the issues and difficulties faced in this task – political, financial, legal and moral.
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Karangwa: Dutch police near completion of case against suspected genocidaire
Jean-Pierre Karangwa, accused by witnesses of complicity in the killings of 30,000 Tutsi, has escaped extradition to Rwanda to face justice. The Netherlands turned down the appeal for him to be sent back to Rwanda to face trial – the question now is whether it will put him on trial for his horrific alleged crimes in their national Court. After 25 years of impunity in the country the justice clock is ticking…
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Four remaining former ICTR detainees seek yet another cash windfall from UN MICT
Is it about to be UN payday-time again? – the four former ICTR detainees in living in Niger are seeking a fourth ‘annual’ windfall of around $13,000 each from the UN – to go with their free housing and healthcare already provided to them. They refuse to go the Rwanda – the only country that will welcome them – preferring to stay at UN taxpayers expense in Niamey.
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A Brief History: Justice and the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda
The 1994 genocide against the Tutsi devastated millions of lives – not just Rwanda but the whole Great Lakes region. It will take generations to heal the deep wounds. How did such a genocide happen despite the international community knowing it was being planned – and what happened to the perpetrators afterwards as they sought to escape and deny their crimes?
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Eugene Ntambara sentenced to life for genocide by Dutch court
Ntambara listens in the dock on the first day of his trial 28 August, 2026, The Hague District Court: Eugene Ntambara, 66, was found guilty and sentenced to life impriosnment for his part in the genocide gains the Tutsi. Ntambara’s trial had finally begun on 17 June, more than two years after his arrest in…
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Eugene Rwamucyo: Appeal dismissed – 27 years for genocide upheld
Eugene Rwamucyo, 67, had his appeal against his original guilty verdict and sentence dismissed by the assize court in Paris. He now faces 27 years in prison for his horrendous crimes.
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Felicien Kabuga – death announced at UN prison hospital
Felicien KABUGA has died aged 91 in a prison hospital cell at The Hague, where he had been held and cared for since his trial was abandoned in August 2023. No country would take him – notably France and Belgium, and his family refused to have him transferred back to Rwanda. In the end time ran out for the genocidaire…
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Fulgence Kayishema – lawyers Gibson and Larochelle play for time (and money) …
In May 2023 justice finally caught up with one of the last major fugitives, former Police chief Fulgence Kayishema, who had been sought by the UN Mechanism in South Africa. However, Kayishema, his lawyers and an inept and politically-dubious Cape Town legal system have so far blocked justice and one year on the accused has still to be transferred to the Mechanism to face trial accused of killing thousands of Tutsis in 1994.
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Peter Robinson and Kabuga family corruption investigation 2022-23
April 2023: The UN Mechanism is currently deliberating over possible action for suspected fraud and corruption against long-time defence lawyer Peter Robinson and some members Félicien Kabuga’s family. Robinson, who has represented some of the most heinous genocidaire is suspected of giving the court fake bank statements and in his representation of Kabuga’s son-in-law Augustin Ngirabatware where he is alleged to have shown ‘repeated professional and ethical lapses,’ including violating the status of protected witnesses.
