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17.03.2010
Herve Madeo     Dismissal - lack of jurisdiction     Belgium     Burma (Myanmar)
Hervé Madeo is a French citizen. As the director of TOTAL MYANMAR EXPLORATION PRODUCTION (TMEP) from 1992 to 1999, Madeo was responsible for the operations of TOTAL on Burmese territory. He was 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. Even if TOTAL and its management were aware of frequent and systematic human rights violati...

10.03.2010
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...

03.03.2010
Ephrem Nkezabera     Sentenced     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...

28.02.2010
Ariel Sharon     Dismissal - lack of jurisdiction     Belgium     Lebanon
Ariel Sharon was born on 27 February 1928 in Kfar Malal in the Negev. He is a well known figure in both political and military spheres, and was Minister of Defence at the time the events occurred. 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 declared that “2000 terrorists” remained inside...

10.02.2010
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...

08.02.2010
Hissene Habre     Sought - Arrest warrant     Belgium     Chad
Hissène Habré was born in 1942 in northern Chad. He 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, especial...

04.12.2009
Etienne Nzabonimana     Sentenced     Belgium     Rwanda
Etienne Nzabonimana was born in 1950. At the time of the alleged events, he was a beer wholesaler in Kibungo, in the south east of Rwanda. Around 50,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus were killed in this prefecture between 6 and 22 April 1994. Nzabonimana is the half-brother of Samuel Ndashyikirwa (see “related cases”), also accused in the same affair. According to the indictment, Etienne Nzabonimana was a man of substantial means and social presti...

04.12.2009
Samuel Ndashyikirwa     Sentenced     Belgium     Rwanda
Samuel Ndashyikirwa was born in 1960. At the time of the alleged incidents, he was a small business owner in the Kibungo prefecture in the south-east of Rwanda. Around 50,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus were killed in this prefecture between 6 and 22 April 1994. Ndashyikirwa is the half-brother of Etienne Nzabonimana (see “related cases”), also accused in the same affair. According to the indictment, Samuel Ndashykirwa owned two drinks store...

16.11.2009
Bernard Ntuyahaga     Sentenced     Belgium     Rwanda
Bernard Ntuyahaga is believed to have been born in 1952 in Mabanza, Kibuye, Rwanda. In 1972, he attended 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 blu...

13.11.2009
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. On 14 May 2003, 17 Iraqi and 2 Jordanian citizens filed a complained against Tommy Franks in Belgium. The complaint was based on the assumption that attacks had been specifically directed against c...
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