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22.02.2008
Ephrem Nkezabera     Indicted     Belgium     Rwanda
Ephrem Nkezabera is said to have been born in 1952. He exercised important financial roles, notably as Director of the Commercial Bank of Rwanda. In 1994, during the massacres, Ephrem Nkezabera is said to have played a key role within the Interahamwe (an extremist Hutu militia which was heavily involved in the genocide), of whose National Committee he was a member. As a banker, he was said to have been in charge of financing the militia and...

20.01.2008
Julienne Mukabutera     Sentenced     Belgium     Rwanda
The two Benedictine nuns, Gertrude (Consolata Mukangango) and Maria Kisito (Julienne Mukabutera) were found guilty of having participated in the massacre of more than 7600 people at the Sovu convent in Butare. Sister Gertrude was the Mother Superior of the convent. As of 17 April 1994, many people sought refuge in the convent They were divided into four groups: pilgrims, families of a few of the Tutsi nuns, the convent personnel and their fami...

14.12.2007
Bernard Ntuyahaga     Sentenced     Belgium     Rwanda
Bernard Ntuyahaga was born, probably in 1952, in Mabanza, Kibuye, Rwanda. In 1972, he went to the Kigali school for army officers. At the time of the alleged facts, he held the rank of major. On 7 April 1994, on the day following the attack on President Juvenal Habyarimana’s plane, soldiers of the Rwandan Armed Forces surrounded the residence of the Prime Minister, Mrs. Agathe Uwiligiyimana who was being protected by ten Belgian blue helmets a...

04.10.2007
Hervé Madeo     Indicted     Belgium     Burma (Myanmar)
Hervé Madeo is a French citizen. As the director of TOTAL MYANMAR EXPLORATION PRODUCTION (1992-1999), Madeo was responsible for the operations of TOTAL on Burmese territory. He was thus also involved in a pipeline project in the region of Yadana. In the area of Tenasserim, military battalions were responsible for the security of the pipeline project; although TOTAL and its management were aware of frequent and systematic human rights violations ...

04.10.2007
Thierry Desmarest     Indicted     Belgium     Burma (Myanmar)
Thierry Desmarest was born on 18 December 1945. He graduated from the Ecole Polytechnique in 1966 and from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines in 1970. From 1981 he held several posts in the TOTAL EXPLORATION PRODUCTION, until he was finally made chairman in 1989. In the same year he also entered the management of the company. After TOTAL merged with Petrofina in 1999 (Totalfina), Thierry Desmarest became head of the administrative board and...

13.07.2007
Hissène Habré     Sought - Arrest warrant     Belgium     Chad
Born in 1942, Hissène Habré ruled the former French colony of Chad from 1982 until his ouster by the current President Idriss Déby and his flight to Senegal. His one party regime was marked by widespread violations of human rights and mass campaigns of violence against his own people. On occasion he undertook persecutions by making collective arrests and committing mass murders against different ethnic groups, especially when he perceived thei...

06.01.2007
Tommy Franks     Dismissal - lack of jurisdiction     Belgium     Iraq
Tommy Franks was born on 1 June 1945 in Wynnewood, Oklahoma. At the time of the events he was commander in chief of the American-British coalition forces in Iraq. The third war against Iraq started with the bombing of Bagdad on 20 March 2003. The complaint is based on the assumption that attacks have been specifically directed against civilians. Examples referred to in the complaint include shootings on unarmed civilians on 15 April and bo...

02.11.2005
Amos Yaron     Dismissal - lack of jurisdiction     Belgium     Lebanon
At the time of the events, Amos Yaron was a Brigadier General in the Israeli army and a Division Commander. On 6 June 1982, the Israeli army invaded Lebanon as part of an operation called “Peace in Galilee”. The Israeli forces made rapid progress and soon reached Beirut. On 11 September 1982, Ariel Sharon who, at the time was Minister of Defence, declared that “2000 terrorists” remained inside Palestinian camps close to Beirut. On 15 Septem...

02.11.2005
Alphonse Higaniro     Sentenced     Belgium     Rwanda
Alphonse Higaniro was born in 1949 in Rwanda. After completing his studies in Belgium, he held important positions in different government Ministries. In January 1992, he was named Managing Director of the matchstick factory Sorwal (Societé Rwandaise des Allumettes). Being a former politician and a businessman Higaniro was close to the Rwandan President Habyarimana who was assassinated in 1994. He was known as a Hutu extremist; as such he was ...

02.11.2005
Consolata Mukangango     Sentenced     Belgium     Rwanda
The two Benedictine nuns, Gertrude (Consolata Mukangango) and Maria Kisito (Julienne Mukabutera) were found guilty of having participated in the massacre of more than 7600 people at the Sovu convent in Butare. Sister Gertrude was the Mother Superior of the convent. As of 17 April 1994, many people sought refuge in the convent They were divided into four groups: pilgrims, families of a few of the Tutsi nuns, the convent personnel and their fami...
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