Agnès Ntamabyaliro Rutagwera

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Agnès Ntamabyaliro Rutagwera was during the genocide in Rwanda Rwandan Justice Minister. At the genocide they played a key role.

When the advancing Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) ended the genocide, she and her family fled to Bukavu , Zaire, in July 1994 . In 1995 she moved to Zambia . On May 27, 1997, she was abducted from her home in the northern Zambian city of Mufulira . She later reappeared in a prison in the Rwandan capital, Kigali .

In 2006, she testified before the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda in Arusha , Tanzania , as a witness in the case of Justin Mugenzi , the former Rwandan Minister for Trade, Industry and Crafts. Her asylum application made in Tanzania was not processed and she was transferred back to Kigali.

Since she was accused crime of Category 1, no came for them Gacaca -Gericht in question. On January 19, 2009, she was sentenced to life imprisonment by an ordinary court.

She is married with five children and has two foster children.

Individual evidence

  1. Alison Des Forges : "Leave none to tell the story". Genocide in Rwanda . Ed .: Human Rights Watch . New York / Washington / London / Brussels 1999, ISBN 1-56432-171-1 , Butare: Let Them Stand Aside for Us and Let Us Work, pp. 687 (American English, [ hrw.org ] [PDF; 4.0 MB ; accessed on May 4, 2014]).
  2. Zambia - Annual Report 1998. Reporting period: January 1 - December 31, 1997. (No longer available online.) Amnesty International , 1998, archived from the original on May 5, 2014 ; Retrieved May 5, 2014 .
  3. a b Documento - Zambia / Rwanda: "Disappearance": Agnes Ntamabyaliro Rutagwera ( Memento from May 5, 2014 in the web archive archive.today )
  4. ^ The Prosecutor v. Casimir Bizimungu et al., Case No. ICTR-99-50-T. (PDF; 3.9 kB) Judgment and Sentence. International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda , September 30, 2011, archived from the original on December 2, 2012 ; accessed on May 5, 2014 .
  5. Rwandan minister incited genocide. BBC , January 20, 2009, accessed May 5, 2014 .
  6. Helmut Strizek: Clinton on Lake Kivu. The story of an African catastrophe . Peter Lang, Frankfurt aMu a. 2011, ISBN 978-3-631-60563-9 , pp. 327 ( limited preview in Google Book search).