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| |  | | Simon Bikindi | | | context : | Rwanda  | | judgement place : | ICTR (Rwanda) | | status : | Sentenced | | particulars : | Trial began on 2 October 2006; closing arguments on 26 May 2008; sentenced to 15 years imprisonment on 2 December 2008 | | position : | Singer and composer |
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| | | | Simon Bikindi was born on 28 September 1954 in Rwerere, prefecture of Gisenyi, in Rwanda. At the time of the facts described here, he was a composer, singer and director of the Irindo ballet. Further, he was a public servant in the ministry of Youth and Sport, as well as a member of the MRND (Mouvement Républicain National pour le Développement et la Démocratie; National Republican Movement for Development and Democracy).
At the beginning of the 1990s, Simon Bikindi allegedly contributed to a media campaign organised by the government, which was designed to encourage hate against the Tutsi people. In particular, he allegedlly composed and performed songs aimed at the Interahamwe (MRND youth groups) and the civilian population in order to encourage them to kill members of the Tutsi people. His works were widely diffused by the Radio-Télévision Libre des Mille Collines (Free Radio and Television of the 1000 Hills).
It is alleged that from April 1994, Simon Bikindi participated actively in massacres. He allegedly recruited members for the Interahamwe militia in the prefecture of Gisenyi, trained and supervised them. He also personnally ordered the execution of some victims.
Simon Bikindi was arrested in Leiden, Netherlands, on 12 July 2001 and transferred to the UN penitentiary quarter of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) in Arusha on 27 March 2002. | |     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 : | | | 28.09.1954 | | | last time seen : | | | Arusha, Tanzania | | | judgement period : | | | 02.10.2006 | | | charges : | | | Crimes against humanity
Genocide | | | profile last modified : | | | 03.12.2008 |
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