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02.07.2009

Juvénal Kajelijeli

Sentenced

ICTR (Rwanda)

Rwanda

Juvenal Kajelijeli was born on 26 December 1951 in Rwinzovu, préfecture of Ruhengeri, in Rwanda. From 1998 to 1993, he held the position of mayor in the Commune of Mukingo, was re-elected in June 1994 and remained in this position until mid-July 1994. As such, he represented the executive branch of power at a communal level. He was in the position to exercise authority over his governmental subordinates and could requisition the police of the com...

02.07.2009

Georges Anderson Nderubumwe Rutaganda

Sentenced

ICTR (Rwanda)

Rwanda

Georges Anderson Nderubumwe Rutaganda was born on 28 November 1958 in Ngoma, prefecture of Kibuye. At the time of the events described here, he was an agricultural engineer and businessman. He acted as a chairman of his own business, a private limited company named Rutaganda which imported food and beverages. Georges Rutaganda was also member of the national and the regional committee of the Mouvement Républicain National pour le Développemen...

01.07.2009

François Karera

Sentenced

ICTR (Rwanda)

Rwanda

François Karera was born in 1939 in Musasa, Rwanda. At the time of the facts described here he was Governor of the Prefecture of Kigali-Rural (central Rwanda) and member of the MRND (Mouvement Républicain National pour le Développement et la Démocratie; National Republican Movement for Development and Democracy). Carrying out this function, he exercised authority over all the mayors of the region, all the administrative personnel and all agents c...

01.07.2009

Athanase Seromba

Sentenced

ICTR (Rwanda)

Rwanda

Athanase Seromba was born in the commune of Rutziro, Rwanda. At the time of the events, he was a catholic priest in the parish of Nyange in the Kibuye prefecture. From April 1994, Athanase Seromba is accused of having planned, organised and supervised several attacks, against Tutsi refugees by the Interahamwe militia, as well as the Rwandan gendarmerie and the communal police, in the commune of Kiwuma. In particular, he is reported to have...

01.07.2009

Juvénal Rugambarara

Sentenced

ICTR (Rwanda)

Rwanda

Juvénal Rugambarara is thought to have been born in the commune of Musana or Tare in the Kigali-rural prefecture of Rwanda. He studied medicine and practised his profession in the medical centre of the Bicumbi commune. He was a well known and influential personality. On 16 September 1993, he was appointed mayor of the Bicumbi commune, in the Kigali-rural prefecture, succeeding Laurent Semanza, a close confidant who assured him of his political su...

01.07.2009

Aloys Simba

Sentenced

ICTR (Rwanda)

Rwanda

Aloys Simba was born on 28 December 1938 in Musebeya commune in Gikongoro prefecture, Rwanda. He was a Lieutenant Colonel in the Rwandan armed forces but retired at the time of the alleged facts. After completing his studies at the Military School of Rwanda, he commanded several army units between 1963 and 1967, and even fought alongside Mobutu Sese Seko in Zaire. In 1973, Aloys Simba joined the group “The Comrades of 15 July” which brought to po...

01.07.2009

Gérard Ntakirutimana

Sentenced

ICTR (Rwanda)

Rwanda

Gérard Ntakirutimana in all probability was born in 1957 in Ngoma in the Kibuye Prefecture of Rwanda. At the time of the events, he was a doctor in the hospital of the “Mugonero Complex” in Ngoma. The Complex was under the direction of the Association of the Seventh Day Adventists and was made up of several buildings, including a nursing school, a hospital and halls of residence. Between April and June 1994, Gérard Ntakirutimana instigated and...

01.07.2009

Emmanuel Ndindabahizi

Sentenced

ICTR (Rwanda)

Rwanda

Emmanuel Ndindabahizi was born in 1950 in the Gitesi commune of the Kibuye prefecture, Rwanda. He was appointed Minister of Finance in the interim government on 8 April 1994 and held this position until the fall of the government in mid-July 1994, at which time he fled towards the DRC (Democratic Republic of Congo). Emmanuel Ndindabahizi was accused of having played a role in the Gitwa Hill massacres, which took place between 17 and 26 Apri...

01.07.2009

Frans Van Anraat

Sentenced

Netherlands

Iraq

Frans van Anraat, born in 1942, is a Dutch businessman. It is alleged that he provided Saddam Hussein's regime with chemical supplies which where used in the attacks on the Kurds in 1988, especially in Halabja, and against the Iranian town of Sardasht in 1987 and 1988. The Iraqi regime has used poison gases against Iranians in the Iran-Iraq war and, most infamously, during "Operation Anfal" in Iraqi Kurdistan between February and September 198...

01.07.2009

Rene Emilio Ponce

Investigations underway

Spain

El Salvador

Rene Emilio Ponce was born in El Salvador. He finished first in his class at the Salvadorian military academy in 1966 and pursued a career in the military. In 1989, he was the Colonel in charge of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. At dawn on November 16 1989, Salvadorian military troops invaded the campus of the Universidad Centroamericana "José Simeón Cañas" (UCA) and brutally murdered six Jesuit priests, including the headmaster, as well as the u...

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