Callixte Mbarushimana

Callixte Mbarushimana (born July 24, 1963 in Ndusu, Rwanda ) is a leader of the Forces Démocratiques de Liberation du Rwanda (FDLR).

Life

Career

He is suspected of being involved in the 1994 genocide in Rwanda . At that time he was working as a computer scientist for the UN Development Program ( UNDP ) in Rwanda ; he is said to be responsible for the murder of Tutsi colleagues. Until 2001 he worked for the UN in Angola and Kosovo . He was arrested several times on the basis of Rwandan arrest warrants. B. in July 2008 at Frankfurt Airport, but was released repeatedly.

He succeeded the incarcerated Ignace Murwanashyaka as the leader of the FDLR and issued press releases in his capacity as "Executive Secretary".

Arrest and prosecution

He was arrested in Paris on October 11, 2010 on suspicion of war crimes (attacks against the civilian population, destruction of property, murder , torture , rape , inhuman treatment and persecution) and crimes against humanity (murder, torture, rape and inhuman acts) arrested between January and September 2009 in the eastern Congolese provinces of North and South Kivu and is to be transferred to the International Criminal Court (ICC). The warrant was issued on September 28 of that year.

On December 16, 2011, the 1st Pre-Trial Chamber of the ICC decided with two to one votes to lay down the charges against Mbarushimana. The reason given was that although they were war crimes, they were not systematic and extensive attacks on civilians and that Mbarushimana himself had too little influence on the soldiers of the FDLR. Chief Prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo appealed the decision.

Web links

• The Prosecutor v. Callixte Mbarushimana (ICC, English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Dominic Johnson : Rwandan Hutu militia chief arrested. In: the daily newspaper . October 12, 2010, accessed October 12, 2010 . 
2. ↑ Dominic Johnson: Rwandan Hutu militia split court. In: the daily newspaper . December 18, 2011, accessed December 20, 2011 .