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| |  | | Célestin Ugirashebuja | | | context : | Rwanda  | | judgement place : | Great Britain | | status : | Indicted | | particulars : | Wanted by Rwandan judiciary; arrested on 28 December 2006; decision to extradite issued by the Magistrate's court on 06 June 2008 | | position : | Mayor of Kigona |
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| | | | Célestin Ugirashebuja was born in 1953. He is the former mayor of Kigona, close to Kigali where, it appears, he exercised very extensive power. His past, before the war, is largely unknown.
Ugirashebuja is charged with participating in 5 massacres. Some witnesses have claimed that, more than likely, he had his own Interahamwe unit (an extremist Hutu militia group) which patrolled the commune pillaging, ransacking and raping women during the second week of April 2004. He also, reportedly, organised meetings in order to prepare the massacres and to incite the people present to kill the Tutsis who “had no usefulness whatsoever in this country”. According to a Rwandan government representative, who requested his extradition from Great Britain, Ugirashebuja's role in this region was to ensure that the Tutsi were massacred. Moreover, Ugirashebuju is said to have a been member of a group which, in exile, continued to broadcast the ideology of Hutu supremacy.
He became a refugee in Great Britain, in Walton-on-the-Naze on the Essex coast, in 2001. Here, he was confronted with protests, notably from Amnesty International, and with newspaper reports condemning his role in the 1994 genocide. He was known to have a job in Walton-on-the-Naze but did not for a time arouse any legal attention.
Célestin Ugirashebuja was arrested in Essex by the British police on 28 December 2006, as a result of an extradition request from the Rwandan government drawn up officially in November 2006. | |     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 : | | | United Kingdom | | | period of charges : | | | 01.01.1994 - 12.12.1994 | | | charges : | | | Genocide | | | profile last modified : | | | 09.06.2008 |
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