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Top Rwandan Hutu rebels 'arrested in Germany'

AFP Global Edition 5 days ago

Two leading Rwandan Hutu rebels were arrested in Germany on Tuesday on suspicion of crimes against humanity and war crimes this year and in 2008 in DR Congo, prosecutors said. The pair, Ignace Murwanashyaka, 46, and Straton Musoni, 48, are the leader ...

Hutu extremist group leaders arrested in Germany

AP News 5 days ago

Prosecutors: Rwandan Hutu extremist group leaders arrested in Germany Two top leaders of a mostly ethnic Hutu militia were arrested in Germany Tuesday on suspicion of committing crimes against humanity in Congo. Experts in the region called the arrests a major blow ...

Rwandan priest acquitted of genocide charges

AP News 5 days ago

Rwandan genocide court acquits priest of genocide charges and orders his release from jail A United Nations court on Tuesday acquitted a Catholic priest charged with genocide, murder and extermination in Rwanda's 1994 genocide after the judge said the prosecution had failed ...

Rwanda tribunal clears 1994 genocide suspect

AFP Global Edition 6 days ago

The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda on Monday cleared an alleged organiser of the country's 1994 genocide and overturned a 20-year sentence against him. The Tanzania-based, UN-backed court ordered the immediate release of Protais Zigiranyirazo after acquitting him of genocide charges. Appeals ...

Rwandan immigrant's genocide case delayed

AFP American Edition 10 days ago

A 37-year-old Rwandan immigrant arrested last week on suspicion of committing acts of genocide appeared briefly via video link in an Ottawa court room Thursday. Jacques Mungwarere was arrested last Friday by Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) at the tail-end of an ...

War criminal praises ministate she helped create

AP News 10 days ago

War criminal Biljana Plavsic says she's glad to see Bosnian Serb ministate is thriving Bosnian Serb war criminal Biljana Plavsic said Thursday the success of Bosnia's Serb Republic helped her survive her years in jail, but she does not plan to return ...

'Butcher of Gitarama' goes on trial over Rwanda genocide

AFP Global Edition 13 days ago

Former Rwandan government minister Callixte Nzabonimana, described by prosecutors as "the Butcher of Gitarama", went on trial Monday at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) in Tanzania. Nzabonimana, who served as youth minister in the mainly Hutu government during Rwanda's 1994 ...

Prosecutor: Rwanda genocide suspect 'killed kids'

AP News 13 days ago

Prosecutor at UN tribunal says Rwanda genocide suspect 'killed kids too weak to walk' A prosecutor at a U.N.-backed tribunal is accusing a Rwandan official of ordering the murder of children too weak to walk during the country's 1994 genocide. Paul Ngarua ...

Sudan's Bashir to miss OIC summit after EU objected

Reuters US Online Report World News 14 days ago

ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir pulled out of an Islamic summit in Istanbul on Sunday -- a trip that the European Union had objected to because of his indictment by the International Criminal Court (ICC) . Bashir, against whom ...

Canadian police arrest Rwandan immigrant, allege genocide

AFP Global Edition 14 days ago

After a six-year probe spanning Africa and North America, a 37-year-old Rwandan immigrant was presented to a judge here Saturday on suspicion of committing acts of genocide, officials said. Jacques Mungwarere was arrested Friday by Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) at the ...

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