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| |  | | Siméon Nchamihigo | | | context : | Rwanda  | | judgement place : | ICTR (Rwanda) | | status : | Sentenced | | particulars : | Trial began on 25 September 2006; closing arguments by defence and prosecution in Januray 2008; sentenced to life inprisonment for genocide and crimes against humanity on 24 September 2008 | | position : | District attorney |
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| | | | Siméon Nchamihigo (also known as Nshamihigo) was born on 8 September 1960 in the prefecture of Cyangugu in Rwanda. At the time of the events described below, he was a district attorney in the prefecture of Cyangugu.
Siméon Nchamihigo is alleged to have organized and participated in a campaign against the Tutsi population and political enemies in the prefecture of Cyangugu; this campaign included: compiling lists of influential Tutsis and members of the opposition; identifying the persons to be executed according to the list; surveying and restricting the movements of these people, in order to facilitate attacks on them; supervising road blocks and handing out weapons to the militia.
Siméon Nchamihigo is supposed to have organized and surveyed the military training of the militia in the prefecture of Cyangugu. This militia later on participated in attacks on fleeing Tustis in the communes of Hanika, Mibirizi, Nkanka, Shangi and Nyamsheke, in which many people died.
In April 1994 Siméon Nchamihigo allegedly surveyed the setting up of road blocks, and ordered the killing of any Tutsis that passed by. He is alleged to have at times mentioned the names of people to be killed.
On 14 April 1994, Siméon Nchamihigo is said to have expelled Tutsis and moderate Hutus from the school of Gihundwe, where they were relatively safe. Subsequently, the weakest of them died of hunger, thirst and sickness.
On 15 April 1994, Siméon Nchamihigo is said to have forcibly expelled Tutsis who had taken refuge in the cathedral of Cyangugu, and forced them into the stadium of Kamarampaka. Most of these people were never seen again and are believed dead.
At the end of April 1994 Siméon Nchamihigo is alleged to have taken part in a meeting that was supposed to decide on security measures. At the meeting, Nchamihigo is said to have asked if there were any hidden Tutsis left who would have to be killed.
Several times in April and May 1994, Nchamihigo is said to have ordered the killing of individuals, for instance a young student (between 13 and 15 April), the accountant of the prefecture, a business man and a Catholic priest (all between 28 and 30 April).
From July 1998 onwards, Siméon Nchamihigo was working under the name Bahati Weza and with false papers as an investigator for the defence of Samuel Imanishimwe at the ICTR. In early May 2001 he was recognized and reported to the prosecutors at the ICTR. | |     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 : | | | 08.09.1960 | | | also known as : | | | Bahati Weza | | | last time seen : | | | Arusha, Tanzania | | | period of charges : | | | 04.1994 - 07.1994 | | | judgement period : | | | 25.09.2006 | | | charges : | | | Crimes against humanity
Genocide
War crimes | | | profile last modified : | | | 06.10.2008 |
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