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| |  | | Grégoire Ndahimana | | | context : | Rwanda  | | judgement place : | ICTR (Rwanda) | | status : | Indicted | | particulars : | Indicted for genocide; arrested on 11 August 2009 in the DRC; transferred to ICTR on 20 September 2009; initial appearance on 28 September 2009 | | position : | Mayor of Kivuma |
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| | | | Grégoire Ndahimana was born in 1952 in the small town of Kivuma, Rwanda. At the time of the events in question, he was the mayor of this town.
Following the assassination of the Rwandan President on 6 April 1994, attacks began to take place against the Tutsis in Kivumu commune, as elsewhere throughout Rwanda. In order to escape from these attacks the Tutsis sought refuge in public buildings and churches, including the church in Nyange. In the context of this situation, starting on 10 April 1994, the mayor of Kivumu, Grégoire Ndahimana and the communal police began to assemble, refugees from different sectors of the commune and to transport them to the parish of Nyange.
On or about this same date, it is reported that several important meetings were held in the administrative centre of Nyange parish. Athanase Seromba, Fulgence Kayishema, Gaspard Kanyarukiga (see “Related Cases”) and Grégoire Ndahimana were all allegedly present at these meetings. In the course of their discussions, it was decided to order the gendarmes from Kibuye prefecture to gather all the Tutsi citizens from Kivuma commune inside the church in Nyange.
By 15 April, attacks against those people assembled in the church had already begun and were intensified. On that same day, Athanase Seromba, Grégoire Ndahimana and Fulgence Kayishema ordered that the church be destroyed thereby causing the death of around 2000 Tutsis inside the church.
According to the indictment, between 6 April 1994 and 20 April 1994, Grégoire Ndahiman allegedly organised these massacres, together with Athanase Seromba, Fulgence Kayishema, Télesphore Ndungutse, Judge Joseph Habiyambere and the deputy Mayor Vedaste Mupende.
On 2 August 2001, he was charged with genocide by the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR). | |     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 : | | | Arusha (Tanzania) | | | period of charges : | | | 06.04.1994 - 20.04.1994 | | | charges : | | | Crimes against humanity
Genocide | | | profile last modified : | | | 29.09.2009 |
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