Recent Genocide Cases

The major genocide criminal cases that have taken place in the recent past have all been in France at the court of assizes in Paris. The most notable is that of the former Prefect of Gikongoro, Laurent Bucyibaruta. He arrived in France in 1997, and French justice has taken 25 years to catch up with him. Now it seems he is too old and frail to even serve his prison sentence having been found guilty. His case is symptomatic of all that is wrong with international justice. Other recent cases include the two bourgmeisters (mayors) Octavien Ngenzi and Tito Barahira and the Interahamwe driver Claude Muhayimana. All the accused had lived comfortable retirements in France for many years. All were found guilty of genocide-related crimes.

Claude Muhayimana (former militia driver)
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Claude Muhayimana (former militia driver)

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  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…

Laurent Bucyibaruta – Genocidaire dies quietly at home – French ‘justice’ too late again
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Laurent Bucyibaruta – Genocidaire dies quietly at home – French ‘justice’ too late again

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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.

Octavien Ngenzi and Tito Barahira: French court sentences two mayors to life for genocide
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Octavien Ngenzi and Tito Barahira: French court sentences two mayors to life for genocide

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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.

Rwanda justice4genocide was set up with the help of survivors of the Rwanda genocide against the Tutsi, academics, human rights groups, journalists and many others who have witnessed and are concerned by the abject failure of UK justice over many years to live up to its much-trumpeted legal excellence.
The aim of the site is to expose the inaction, apathy, and hypocrisy that lies behind the rhetoric by UK politicians and which the British and global public have had to listen to for 80 years about how the UK holds the most serious of criminals to account. And inform readers about how past, present and future justice is progressing – or not with news and resources made available in one place.
Justice4genocide believes that perpetrators of genocide and war crimes should NOT have impunity just because it suits a government politically and financially to give it to them.
To be victims of the horrific crime of genocide is terrible enough. To be victimised again by watching perpetrators walking about unpunished, even being paid and housed by their new countries, is unimaginable. Survivors have no freedom from lifelong pain. Why should perpetrators have freedom from justice?