War Crimes Charges for Rwandans
Four former senior Rwandan officials went on trial in Tanzania yesterday accused of playing important roles in the 1994 genocide of 800,000 people, including training militias and drawing up lists of people to be killed. It is the second trial in a month to feature former cabinet...
Four former senior Rwandan officials went on trial in Tanzania yesterday accused of playing important roles in the 1994 genocide of 800,000 people, including training militias and drawing up lists of people to be killed.
It is the second trial in a month to feature former cabinet ministers and senior officials from Rwanda on charges of inciting ethnic hatred and mass killings.
The defendants are the former interior minister Edouard Karemera; Andre Rwamakuba, who was minister of primary and secondary education; Mathieu Ngirumpatse, former chairman of the dominant political party at the time, the MRND, and the former party secretary-general Joseph Nzirorera.
They are accused of conspiring to exterminate the Tutsi population and their political opponents.
All deny charges of genocide, complicity in genocide, conspiracy to commit genocide, incitement to commit genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes.
It is the second trial in a month to feature former cabinet ministers and senior officials from Rwanda on charges of inciting ethnic hatred and mass killings.
The defendants are the former interior minister Edouard Karemera; Andre Rwamakuba, who was minister of primary and secondary education; Mathieu Ngirumpatse, former chairman of the dominant political party at the time, the MRND, and the former party secretary-general Joseph Nzirorera.
They are accused of conspiring to exterminate the Tutsi population and their political opponents.
All deny charges of genocide, complicity in genocide, conspiracy to commit genocide, incitement to commit genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes.
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