2023-05-25 10:56:42
He was one of the last four fugitives wanted for their role in the 1994 genocide once morest the Tutsi in Rwanda. Fulgence Kayishema was arrested on Wednesday (24 May) in South Africa, UN prosecutors investigating the case announced on Thursday .
“One of the most wanted fugitives in the world (…) was arrested in Paarl, South Africa”, in an operation with South African authorities, a United Nations court said in a statement. He had been on the run since 2001, said the International Mechanism called upon to exercise the residual functions of the criminal tribunals (the “Mechanism”), responsible for completing the work of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR).
More than 2,000 people murdered
According to the indictment, Mr. Kayishema, born in 1961, murdered, with other individuals, more than 2,000 men, women, elderly people and refugee children in the church of Nyange, in the commune of Kivumu. , April 15, 1994.
He would have “directly participated in the planning and execution of this massacre”the court said, “including procuring and distributing gasoline to burn down the church with the refugees inside”. ‘When that failed, Mr Kayishema and others used a bulldozer to collapse the church, burying and killing the refugees inside’he specified.
Mr. Kayishema, charged with genocide, complicity in genocide, conspiracy to commit genocide and crimes once morest humanity, used numerous pseudonyms and false documents to conceal his identity and presence, the Mechanism said.
The ICTR convicted a total of 62 people. Others, like Augustin Bizimana, one of the main organizers of the massacre, died without facing international justice.
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