Trial: PARIS ASSIZE COURT November – December 2021 A daily account of Muhayiman’s trial in Paris can be found HERE (pdf). Appeal date – to be announced. Claude Muhayimana’s trial took place before the Paris Criminal Court (Cour d’assises) between 22 November and 16 December 2021. Muhayimana was found guilty of complicity in genocide…

The death of Laurent Bucyibaruta has been announced. The former prefect of Gikongoro, who escaped justice for 22 years, before finally being convicted in summer 2022 of complicity in genocide and crimes against humanity, had been allowed to continue living at home in Saint-André-les-Vergers for the past year while awaiting an appeal against his conviction.

In May 2018 the two bourgmeisters (mayors), who had fled to France after the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi, had the trial verdict of guilty of genocide upheld by the Paris Criminal Court. It ended a long judicial case that had begun nine years earlier. It was found they used their position to organise and lead militia to massacre Tutsis – including the horrific attack at Kabarondo churching April 1994 that led to 2,000 unarmed, defenceless Tutsis – men, women, children, babies – being hacked to death.