UPDATE – 27 February 2026 The Paris Appeal court has upheld the original 2021 trial judgement of GUILTY, and the sentence of 14 years, against Claude Muhayimana, the 65 year-old former driver and hotel worker from Kibuye. After nearly nine hours of deliberating, at 7.40 pm on Friday 27 February, the court president Sabine…

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.