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 |  |  |  | Bernard Ntuyahaga |  | | context : | Rwanda  | | judgement place : | Belgium  | | status : | Sentenced | | particulars : | Imprisoned in Belgium since March 2004; found guilty on 4 July 2007 and sentenced to 20 years in prison; | | position : | Major in the Rwandan Army | |
|  | |  | Bernard Ntuyahaga is believed to have been born in 1952 in Mabanza, Kibuye, Rwanda. In 1972, he attended the Kigali school for army officers. At the time of the alleged facts, he held the rank of major.
On 7 April 1994, on the day following the attack on President Juvenal Habyarimana’s plane, soldiers of the Rwandan Armed Forces surrounded the residence of the Prime Minister, Mrs. Agathe Uwiligiyimana who was being protected by ten Belgian blue helmets and five Ghanaians.
Agathe Uwiligiyimana tried to escape, but was assassinated by the Rwandan soldiers who then captured the blue helmets. The Ghanaians were freed but the ten Belgians were reportedly led to the Kigali military camp where they were massacred in cold blood.
Fearing extradition to Rwanda, Major Ntuyahaga surrendered to the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) in Arusha, Tanzania, in June 1998. |  | click for more... |  | Trial Watch would like to remind its users that any person charged by national or international authorities is presumed innocent until proven guilty. |  |  |  | | last time seen : | | | Brussels (Belgium) |  | | period of charges : | | | 07.04.1994 - 07.04.1994 |  | | judgement period : | | | 19.04.2007 - 04.07.2007 |  | | charges : | | | Crimes against humanity Genocide War crimes |  | | profile last modified : | | | 16.11.2009 |
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