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The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda [a] (ICTR; French: Tribunal pénal international pour le Rwanda; Kinyarwanda: Urukiko Mpanabyaha Mpuzamahanga Rwashyiriweho u Rwanda) was an international court established in November 1994 by the United Nations Security Council in Resolution 955 in order to adjudicate people charged for the Rwandan genocide and other serious violations of ...
The list of people indicted in the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda includes all individuals who have been indicted on any counts of genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, or contempt of the Tribunal by the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) pursuant to the Statute of the Tribunal.
The Rwandan genocide, also known as the genocide against the Tutsi, occurred from 7 April to 19 July 1994 during the Rwandan Civil War. [4] Over a span of around 100 days, members of the Tutsi ethnic group, as well as some moderate Hutu and Twa, were systematically killed by Hutu militias.
* In August 1993, Rwanda and the RPF signed a deal to end years of civil war, allowing for power-sharing and the return of refugees. ... Rwanda's first genocide trial opened at the International ...
Approximately 18 people were sentenced to death in Rwanda in 2003, and all were convicted of crimes related to their involvement in the Rwandan genocide; there were a total of 450 people put on trial in 2003 for genocide-related crimes, [10] many of whom were convicted during a mass trial. Those who were convicted but not sentenced to death had ...
Last year, Laurent Bucyibaruta was sentenced by a Paris court to 20 years in prison for complicity to commit genocide and crimes against humanity, making him the highest-ranking Rwandan to be ...
The shootdown was the catalyst for the Rwandan genocide: Rwandan genocide: 7 April – 15 July 1994 Various 500,000–1,000,000 [3] 70% of Tutsis exterminated, 30% of Twa killed Musha Church massacre: 13 April 1994 Rutoma sector, Gikoro commune, Kigali: 1,180-1,200 [4] [5] Part of the Rwandan genocide Murambi Technical School massacre: April 18 ...
Munyakazi was teaching at Maryland’s Goucher College when he gave a lecture at the University of Delaware in which he characterized the Rwandan genocide as in fact “a civil war for political ...