By Nangayi Guyson – Arusha – AFP- Georges Rutaganda, 52 a former militia chief who was sentenced by the UN tribunal for Rwanda to life in prison for his role in the 1994 genocide, has died in Benin where he was serving his sentence, a statement said on Wednesday. The leader of the Interahamwe militia whose members did much of the killing during the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, died of sudden complications from a long illness,” the tribunal said. Rutaganda died a natural death on Monday, the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) said in a statement. He was also... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Wednesday, October 13th 2010 |
By Nangayi Guyson – Kigali – BBC – Rwandan FDLR rebel leader has been arrested in France on war crimes charges, the International Criminal Court says. Callixte Mbarushimana Callixte Mbarushimana is accused in the sealed warrant of 11 counts of murder, rape and other crimes during the long conflict in DR Congo. FDLR fighters were recently accused of taking part in the mass rape of several hundred people in eastern DR Congo of which they deny any responsibility for the attacks. After a Tutsi-dominated group took power in Rwanda, they fled into what is now the Democratic Republic of Congo,... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Tuesday, October 12th 2010 |
By Guyson Nanagayi – Geneva – AFP- The UN on Friday published a hotly-contested report detailing massacres by foreign armies and rebels saying acts of genocide may have been committed in the DR Congo. Although the report was published, Rwanda, whose troops are at the center of the most serious accusations, said it categorically rejected the report after it failed to have it suppressed.”The government of Rwanda categorically rejects this report,” said a statement. “The desire to validate the double genocide theory is consistently present throughout The Draft Mapping Report by mirror imaging’ the actors, ideology, and methods employed during... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Sunday, October 3rd 2010 |
By Guyson Nanagayi – UNITED NATIONS -(AFP) – UN chief Ban Ki-moon has thanked Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame for keeping peacekeeping troops in Sudan, despite anger over looming genocide accusations against the Rwandan army. After a draft of the report was leaked last month, Rwanda threatened to withdraw its peacekeeping troops if the final report – to be published on October 01 – accuses its army of genocide. Seven countries are named in the report, and Burundi has also demanded that it be removed from the final version. The draft report had also accused the Burundi army of the 1990s... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Monday, September 27th 2010 |
Rwanda’s President Kagame BY NANGAYI GUYSON – KIGALI (AFP) – General Ban Ki-moon is in Rwanda over a major dispute leaked to UN report on war crimes allegedly committed by Rwanda in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Rwanda’s President Kagame UN report accused Rwandan troops and their allies of staging genocide style massacres of civilians in DR Congo in 1996-97 but Rwanda denies the allegations has threatened to pull its troops out of international peacekeeping missions. A spokesman at the United Nations headquarters said Ban had arrived in the Rwandan capital for the unannounced visit and would hold talks with... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Wednesday, September 8th 2010 |
