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| |  | | Emmanuel Rukundo | | | context : | Rwanda  | | judgement place : | ICTR (Rwanda) | | status : | Sentenced | | particulars : | Sentenced by the ICTR to 25 years imprisonment on 27 February 2009 | | position : | Priest and military chaplain |
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| | | | Emmanuel Rukundo was born on 1 December 1959 in Kabgayi, in the Gitamara Prefecture, Rwanda. After having studied at the Nyakibanda seminary, Rukundo was ordained a priest in July 1991. He was put in charge of a parish to the north of Kabgayi. Subsequently, he was appointed Army Chaplain, a position he occupied throughout the year 1994.
After the Rwandan genocide, he left the country and asked for asylum in Switzerland. From 1999 he fulfilled the office of curate in St. Paul’s parish, Geneva. On 11 July 2001, the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) requested the Swiss Department of Foreign Affairs to arrest Rukundo and to transfer him to the Tribunal.
The following day Rukundo was arrested in Geneva.
The ICTR indictment accused Rukundo of counts of genocide and crimes against humanity.
Rukundo reportedly adopted an extremist position on the side of the Hutus and became committed to taking action against the Tutsis. He was said to have been responsible for the murder of a great number of Tutsis. He was also considered to have betrayed a great number of Tutsis during the troubles in Rwanda by forwarding to the army and the authorities, lists with their names and addresses. Many Tutsis were killed as a result of this. Accompanied by soldiers, he reportedly went out looking for Tutsis who were fleeing in order to kill them. He is said to have made the following statement: “The Tutsis are a race which should be wiped out. We must fight them with all the means at our disposal”.
On 11 July 2001, theInternational Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) formally asked the Swiss Department of Foreign Affairs to arrest Rukundo and to transfer him to the Tribunal. The following day he was arrested in Geneva. | |     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. | |  |  | | nationality : | | | Rwanda | | | date of birth : | | | 01.12.1959 | | | last time seen : | | | Arusha (Tanzania) | | | period of charges : | | | 06.03.1994 - 07.1994 | | | judgement period : | | | 15.11.2006 | | | charges : | | | Crimes against humanity
Genocide | | | profile last modified : | | | 11.11.2009 |
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