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| |  | | Charles Munyaneza | | | 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 Kinyamakara |
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| | | | Charles Munyaneza was born in 1958 in Rwanda. During the period covered by the allegations, Munyaneza was the mayor of the commune of Kinyamakara, in the Gikongoro prefecture, of southern Rwanda. Munyaneza was also known to be one of closest allies of Aloys Simba (cf. “related cases”), an officer in the Rwandan army who was sentenced to 25 years imprisonment by the ICTR in December 2005 for genocide and extermination as crimes against humanity.
Munyaneza is accused of incitement to kill Tutsi, but also of having helped in the organization of the massacre of Tutsi in the prefectures of Gikongoro and Butare.
According to a report issued by African Rights (a human rights association based in London), Munyaneza coordinated a series of large scale massacres, notably at the Isonga Centre for Experimental Research of the Rwandan College of Agricultural Sciences in Ruhashya, in Butare prefecture, as well as at the Cyanika catholic church located in Gikongoro province. Munyaneza is also reported to have ordered the erection of roadblocks in the Kinyamakara province in order to make identity checks resulting in the arrest of Tutsi. In addition, he is said to have personally participated in some of the killings.
On or about 19 or 20 April 1994, Munyaneza and Aloys Simba, amongst others, are said to have organised and ordered the encirclement of and attack on the Murambi technical school, where 50’000 Tutsi had gone to find refuge from the massacres. Only about a dozen people survived the attack on the Murambi technical school which took place on 21 April 1994.
Towards the end of June 1994, faced with the advance of the troops of the RPF (Rwandan Patriotic Front, an opposition movement composed essentially of Tutsi refugees and led by Paul Kagame), Munyaneza fled Rwanda. He went into hiding first of all in South Africa. Subsequently, in 1999 he moved to Great Britain, where he lodged a request for asylum. In 2002, Munyaneza acquired the status of political refugee.
On 29 January 2006, the British newspaper the “Sunday Times” revealed in a report that Munyaneza was living peacefully with his family in the town of Bedford, Great Britain, where he was employed as a cleaner and living under a false identity under the name of “Charles Muneza”. | |     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. | |  |  | | also known as : | | | Charles Muneza | | | last time seen : | | | Bedford (Great Britain) | | | charges : | | | Crimes against humanity
Genocide | | | profile last modified : | | | 09.06.2008 |
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