Rwandan genocide.

‘Hotel Rwanda’ Hero’s Family Drag Govt To Court, Demands $400m

‘Hotel Rwanda’ Hero’s Family Drags Govt To Court Over Torture

May 1, 2022 1:02 am

The family of Paul Rusesabagina, whose heroism which he displayed during the 1994 Rwandan genocide was depicted in the Hollywood film Hotel Rwanda, have filed a $400m lawsuit in the US over his alleged abduction and torture by the government of Rwanda.

Africa Daily News, New York reports that the lawsuit named the government of Rwanda, President Paul Kagame, as well as other senior officials including the former justice minister and intelligence chief as co-defendants.

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‘The complaint alleges that the Government of Rwanda and high-ranking Rwandan officials conspired to …

France Urged To Try Ex-Rwandan Officer For Genocide

April 16, 2021 12:02 am

Anti-terrorist prosecutors in France have asked for a Rwandan former policeman to be made to stand trial in Paris for genocide and crimes against humanity in his homeland in 1994.

The Ex-Police chief, Philippe Hategekimana has been in detention in France for two years since his extradition from Cameroon, where he was arrested following a warrant from France to that effect in 2018.

He is being accused of putting up checkpoints where ethnic Tutsis were slaughtered in the southern town of Ntyazo, and of complicity in the murder of the town’s mayor Narcisse Nyagasaza.

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One Of The World’s Most Wanted To Face Extradition Hearing Today

May 27, 2020 11:16 am

One of the world’s most wanted men is on Wednesday due to face an extradition hearing in a Paris court for his alleged role in the 1994 Rwandan genocide.

Felicien Kabuga, born in 1935, is sought by an international court on seven charges of involvement in genocide and crimes against humanity.

French police earlier this month tracked him down to an apartment in a Paris suburb where he was living under a false name, after years on the run.

He was among the nine most-wanted fugitives in the genocide, in which more than 800,000 Rwandans, members of the Tutsi ethnic …