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François Karera

context : Rwanda Search
judgement place : ICTR (Rwanda) Search
status : Sentenced
particulars : Found guilty of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes and sentenced to life imprisonment on 7 December 2007; Appeal pending
position : Governor of the Prefecture of Kigali-Rural
factslegal procedure
François Karera was born in 1939 in Musasa, Rwanda. At the time of the facts described here he was Governor of the Prefecture of Kigali-Rural (central Rwanda) and member of the MRND (Mouvement Républicain National pour le Développement et la Démocratie; National Republican Movement for Development and Democracy). Carrying out this function, he exercised authority over all the mayors of the region, all the administrative personnel and all agents charged with the application of the law.

In April and May 1994, François Karera organised and supervised an extermination campaign directed against Tutsi civilians in Nyamirambo, the city of Kigali and in Kanzenze. In particular, he assisted police officers and gendarmes in killing a great number of Tutsi civilians who had searched refuge in the church of Ntarama in Kazenze. When the Front patriotique rwandais gained power, he fled Rwanda. However, even after his escape he continued to plan massacres directed against the Tutsi from a refugee camp in Zaire.

François Karera was arrested in Kenya on 20 October 2001 and transferred to the UN penitentiary quarter of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) in Arusha, Tanzania, the following day.
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  last time seen :
  Arusha (Tanzania)
  period of charges :
 01.04.1994 - 31.05.1994
  judgement period :
  09.01.2006 - 07.12.2007
  charges :
  Crimes against humanity
Genocide
  profile last modified :
  20.07.2008
 
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