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Barayagwiza declines to plead to new counts

18 April 2000
Jean Bosco Barayagwiza, a former Director of Political Affairs in the Rwandan Foreign Ministry and a founder member of Radio Télévision Libre des Mille Collines (RTLM), today declined to plead to three new counts brought against him by the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. Mr Barayagwiza refused to recognise the duty counsel assigned to him by the... more

Statement by the President: plane crash in Rwanda in April 1994

7 April 2000
The President of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) today issued the following statement: On Monday 27 March 2000 I received by fax a letter dated 24 March from the Under-Secretary-General and Legal Counsel, Mr Hans Corell. The letter states that, following a request by a number of defence attorneys working at the ICTR, a memorandum had been located... more

Barayagwiza to be tried by ICTR

31 March 2000
The Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), sitting in the Hague, today held that new facts presented to it diminished the impact of certain failings of the Prosecutor and the gravity of the resulting infringements of Barayagwiza's rights as an accused person. Consequently the remedy ordered by the Appeal Chamber in its judgement of 3 November... more

Pastor Ntakirutimana pleads not guilty

31 March 2000
Elizaphan Ntakirutimana, a 76-year-old former Pastor of the Seventh Day Adventist Church in Mugonero, Kibuye Prefecture, today pleaded not guilty to charges of genocide and crimes against humanity when he made his initial appearance before Judge Asoka de Zoysa Gunawardana from Trial Chamber I. Ntakirutimana is the first religious leader to appear before the Tribunal in... more

Pastor Ntakirutimana transferred to the Tribunal’s custody

25 March 2000
Elizaphan Ntakirutimana, former pastor of the Seventh Day Adventist Church in Mugonero, Kibuye Prefecture, who had been arrested in United States on a basis of a warrant issued by the International Criminal for Rwanda (ICTR) was transferred to the United Nations Detention Facility (UNDF) in Arusha yesterday. After more than three years of legal procedures the American... more

Former Minister for Higher Education pleads not guilty

24 March 2000
Jean de Dieu Kamuhanda, former Minister for Culture and Higher Education in the interim Government of Rwanda in 1994, today pleaded not guilty to nine counts charging him with genocide and crimes against humanity. The plea was entered during his initial appearance before Judge Yakov Ostrovsky. The Prosecution alleged that, during the month of April 1994, Kamuhanda had... more

France transfers former minister to Arusha

8 March 2000
Jean de Dieu Kamuhanda, formerly Minister for Culture and Higher Education in the interim Government of Rwanda in 1994 was transferred to the United Nations Detention Facility in Arusha on 7 March 2000. He had been arrested by the French authorities at Bourges (France) on the basis of an arrest warrant issued by the Tribunal. Kamuhanda is charged with: Genocide, or, in the... more

Statement by the Prosecutor: two more arrests

15 February 2000
The Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal, Ms Carla Del Ponte, announced in Arusha today the arrest of two high ranking military officers, both former members of the Rwandan Armed Forces. Francois-Xavier Nzuwonemeye was arrested at his home in Montauban, France at 07h00 this morning while Innocent Sagahutu was arrested at his home in Ringkjøbing, Denmark. Both... more

Appeals Chamber confirms Serushago sentence

14 February 2000
The Appeals Chamber of the ICTR, composed of Judges Claude Jorda, presiding, Lal Chand Vohrah, Mohammed Shahabuddeen, Rafael Nieto-Navia and Fausto Pocar, sitting in Arusha, today dismissed Omar Serushago's appeal and confirmed the sentence of fifteen years of imprisonment imposed upon him for genocide and crimes against humanity. Serushago thus becomes the first person to be... more

Former Rwandan army officer arrested in London

7 February 2000
A former senior army officer in Rwanda, Lieutenant Colonel Tharcisse Muvunyi, was on 5 February 2000 arrested by the British Government in London on the basis of a warrant of arrest issued by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. Muyunyi was the Commander of Ecole des Sous-Officiers (ESO) IN Butare at the time of the Rwandan genocide in 1994 Lt. Colonel Muvunyi is... more