Genocide of the Tutsis: investigation in Paris on a former Rwandan politician for "crimes against humanity"
The names of the victims of the 1994 Rwandan genocide at the Ntarama Genocide Memorial, in Kigali.
On April 7, 2019, Rwanda will commemorate the 25th anniversary of the 1994 genocide. © AFP / Jacques NKinzingabo
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A judicial investigation was opened in Paris against a former Rwandan politician, who is believed to be living in France, in particular for "crime of genocide" and "crimes against humanity" for the role he would have had during the genocide of the Tutsis in 1994, AFP indicates citing a judicial source.
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Opened on October 18 by the national anti-terrorism prosecution and entrusted to judges from the "
crimes against humanity
"
pole
of the Paris judicial tribunal, the investigation is aimed at Pierre Kayondo, also for offenses of "
complicity in the crime of genocide
", "
complicity in crimes against humanity
”and“
conspiracy to prepare for these crimes
”, between April and July 1994.
It follows the complaint with the constitution of civil party filed on September 22 by the Collectif des parties civiles du Rwanda (CPCR), according to which Pierre Kayondo would live in Le Havre.
The president of the CPCR, Alain Gauthier, then affirmed that Pierre Kayondo was "a
shareholder of the Radio Télévision des Mille Collines
" and "
considered as an
" irreducible of the MRND "(National Republican Movement for Democracy and Development),
closely linked to the Interahamwe movement
”, Hutu militias, the main armed forces of the genocide.
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In its complaint, the CPCR assures us that Pierre Kayondo, “
former prefect of Kibuye and former deputy
” in the prefecture of Gitarama, “
actively participated in the organization of the exterminations in Ruhango and Tambwe in the prefecture of Gitarama, by allowing the formation of a group of interahamwe militiamen, supplying weapons and participating in meetings
”.
For Mr. Gauthier, Pierre Kayondo "
was close to personalities convicted of genocide
", including Colonel Aloys Simba and Ephrem Nkezabera, nicknamed the "
banker of the genocide
".
The CPCR, an association which has been tracking for more than twenty years the suspected genocidaires in France on behalf of the victims and survivors, relies on several testimonies which, according to him, "
establish the active role of Mr. Kayondo in the killings which are taking place. take place from April 20 in the Gitarama region
”.
The genocide against the Tutsi minority, orchestrated by the extremist Hutu regime in power, left more than 800,000 dead between April and July 1994.
With AFP
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