Indicted by the Prosecutor of the ICTR; referral request to the Rwandan judiciary filed by the ICTR Prosecutor on 11 September 2007; referral denied by the ICTR on 6 June 2008
Gaspard Kanyarukiga was born in 1945 in the commune of Kivumu, Kibuye prefecture, Rwanda. At the time of the events, he was a businessman.
Together with Athanase Seromba (see 'related cases'), he is accused of planning the massacre of some 2000 Tutsis in the Catholic church in Nyange, Kibuye in April 1994.
Gaspard Kanyarukiga was arrested on 16 July 2004 in South Africa and transferred to the prison quarters of the ICTR (International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda) in Arusha, Tanzania on 19 July 2004.
