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Rwanda: Genocide Fugitive Kayishema Re-Arrested, to Be Transfered to Arusha
New Times, 16 August 2023
Fulgence Kayishema, a top fugitive wanted for his role in the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi, was re-arrested on Tuesday, August 15, this time for transfer to Arusha, Tanzania… Read more »
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Africa: Brammertz - 'South Africa Is a Haven for Fugitive Genocide Suspects'
JusticeInfo.net, 14 June 2021
International prosecutor Serge Brammertz stepped up his tone on June 8 before the United Nations Security Council. He accused South Africa of protecting Fulgence Kayishema, a… Read more »
Rwanda Genocide - Kayishema Rearrested, Will Face Tanzania Trial
Fulgence Kayishema, a fugitive wanted for his role in the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi, was re-arrested on Tuesday, August 15, 2023 in Cape Town, South Africa. This time he will be transferred to Arusha, Tanzania from where his trial will commence, writes Hudson Kuteesa for New Times.
This latest development brought at the request of the United National International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals, caught his legal team unawares, News24 reports.
The 62-year-old has been in custody in South Africa since May 24, 2023 when he was apprehended in Cape Town, first on allegations of Refugees Act and immigration law violations. It was later found that he was a wanted fugitive for genocide crimes in Rwanda.
In 2021 Ephrem Rugiririza wrote for JusticeInfo.net that international prosecutor Serge Brammertz accused South Africa of protecting Kayishema.
Kayishema has been named as a key perpetrator of the bulldozing and setting alight of the Nyange Church in western Rwanda, in which over 1,500 people of the Tutsi ethnic group were trapped and where many were killed as a result of the attack.
InFocus
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The French government holds "significant responsibility" for enabling the Rwandan 1994 genocide since it was aware that it was being prepared, according to an American report. The ... Read more »
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French prosecutors have reportedly asked judges to drop a case accusing senior members of the French armed forces of complicity in the massacre of Tutsis during the 1994 Rwandan ... Read more »
Fulgence Kayishema – one of the world’s most wanted genocide fugitives – was arrested in Paarl, South Africa in a joint operation by the IRMCT Office of the Prosecutor (OTP) Fugitive Tracking Team and South African authorities.
