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| |  | | Fulgence Kayishema | | | context : | Rwanda  | | judgement place : | ICTR (Rwanda) | | status : | Sought - Arrest warrant | | particulars : | Accused of genocide, at large; a request for referral of his case to the Rwandan judiciary was filed on 11 June 2007 by the chief prosecutor for the ICTR | | position : | Judicial police inspector in Kivumu |
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| | | | Fulgence Kayishema was born in 1960 in the Kivumu commune in Rwanda. At the time of the facts in question, he was the inspector of the judicial police in this commune.
Following the assassination of the Rwandan president on the 6th of April 1994, attacks were perpetrated against Tutsis in the Kivumu commune, like elsewhere in Rwanda. In order to escape these attacks, Tutstis took refuge in public buildings and in churches, including the Nyange Church. In this context, starting the 10th of April 1994, the mayor of Kivumu, Grégoire Ndahimana (see “related cases”), and the communal police, including Fulgence Kayishema, gathered the refugees from different sectors of the commune and brought them to the Parish of Nyange.
Around the 10th of April 1994, many important meetings are said to have taken place at the Parish of Nyange and at the communaloffice. Athanase Seromba, Gaspard Kanyarukiga (see “related cases”), Grégoire Ndahimana and Fulgence Kayishema are believed to have attended these meetings. It appears that, during these meetings, it was decided to request Kibuye prefecture for gendarmes in order to gather all the civilian Tutsis of the Kivumu commune in the Nyange Church.
The 14th of April 1994, Fulgence Kayishema is said to have provided the Hutus militia with fuel, which was used to set fire to the Nyange Church. Meanwhile, the gendarmes and the communal police launched grenades at the church. Around the 15th of April, the attacks against the refugees hiding in the church intensified. That same day, Athanase Seromba, Grégoire Ndahimana and Fulgence Kayishema are believed to have ordered the destruction of the church, thereby killing some 2,000 Tutsis.
According to the indictment against him, Fulgence Kayishema allegedly supervised these massacres between the 6th of April 1994 and the 20th of April 1994, along with Athanase Seromba, Grégoire Ndahimana, Télesphore Ndungutse, the judge Joseph Habiyambere and the assistant mayor Vedaste Mupende.
On the 2nd of August 2001, Fulgence Kayishema was accused of genocide, or in the alternative, complicity in genocide, conspiracy to commit genocide and crimes against humanity for extermination. He was charged by the prosecutor for the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. | |     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. | |  |  | | period of charges : | | | 06.04.1994 - 20.04.1994 | | | charges : | | | Crimes against humanity
Genocide | | | profile last modified : | | | 30.11.2008 |
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