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| |  | | Anatole Nsengiyumva | | | context : | Rwanda  | | judgement place : | ICTR (Rwanda) | | status : | Sentenced | | particulars : | Found guilty in the so called "Military I" trial and sentenced to life imprisonment on 18 December 2008 | | position : | Lieutenant Colonel, Chief Military Intelligence, Army High Command |
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| | | | Anatole Nsengiyumva was born on 4 September 1950 in the commune of Satinsyi in Gisenyi prefecture. He became lieutenant-colonel in the army and held the position of Chief of Military Intelligence within the Army High Command for several years, before taking over, on June 13, 1993, the position of Commander of military operations for Gisenyi. In this position he had authority over the military sectors of Gisenyi. Due to his relationships, he also enjoyed personal authority over the militias of the MRND (National Republican Movement for Democracy and Development), over the Interahamwe and also the militias of the CDR, the Impuzamugambi.
According to the indictment, Anatole Nsengiyumva, conspired with Théoneste Bagosora, Aloys Ntabakuze and Joseph Nzirorera (see “related cases”), in order to develop a plan which by stirring up hatred and ethnic violence would eliminate the opposition and so keep them in power.
In the execution of this plan, Anatole Nsengiyumva is said to have organised ordered and participated in massacres perpetrated against the Tutsi population and moderate Hutus. During the Arusha peace agreement negotiations, Anatole Nsengiyumva stated publicly that they would only lead to war and that the consequence of this would be the extermination of the Tutsis.
Moreover, it is alleged that Anatole Nsengiyumva supervised the training of the MRND militias, the Interahamwe, and the CDR militias, the Impuzamugambi. On 10 January 1994, 1,700 militias are said to have undergone such training and, as a result, were said to be capable of eliminating 1000 Tutsis every twenty minutes. He also participated in distributing arms to the militias.
The indictment also alleges that Anatole Nsengiyumva supervised the drafting of lists of people to be executed, and that these lists were regularly updated under his authority.
It was during the night of 6 to 7 April 1994, according to the indictment that Anatole Nsengiyumva, after discussing with Théoneste Bagosora, is said to have given the order to begin the massacres in Gisenyi. Reportedly, the order given was to massacre all of the Tutsis.
This being the case the first of the killings took place under his orders and in his presence.
Nsengiyumva was arrested in Cameroon on 27 March 1996 and transferred to the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) on 23 January 1997. | |     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 : | | | 04.09.1950 | | | last time seen : | | | Arusha (Tanzania) | | | period of charges : | | | 01.01.1994 - 31.12.1994 | | | judgement period : | | | 02.04.2002 | | | charges : | | | Crimes against humanity
Genocide | | | profile last modified : | | | 19.12.2008 |
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