Anatole Nsengiyumva

Anatole Nsengiyumva (born September 4, 1950 in Satinsyi ) is a Rwandan military. He is charged with preparing and coordinating the genocide in Rwanda before the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda .

Anatole Nsengiyumva was born on September 4, 1950 in Satinsyi ( Gisenyi Prefecture , northwestern Rwanda). In the Rwandan army , he rose to lieutenant colonel and eventually chief of intelligence in the high command. He was a member of a commission convened by President Habyarimana on December 4, 1991 , which was supposed to develop proposals for the war against the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF). The meetings of this commission are seen as crucial preparations for the genocide in Rwanda. Nsengiyumva was a member of the Akazu- called power circle around Agathe Habyarimana . He is also said to have been a member of the Zero Network , which controlled death squads . In his capacity as news chief, he sent reports to the Defense Minister and President Habyarimana opposing a peace deal with the RPF. In June 1992, he accused the PL and MDR parties of building a subversive group. He also had lists drawn up of people, including high-ranking military personnel, who he believed had links to the RPF or opposition parties. At the beginning of the peace negotiations, he accused the RPF of actually not being interested in the negotiations, but in the conquest of Kigali. Contacts with the RPF undermine the army's morale.

In June 1993 he warned of an imminent attack by the RPF on Gisenyi. Lists submitted by him contained names of Tutsi whom he accused of hiding weapons. Minister Landoald Ndasingwa was also involved in subversive actions . In the same month he was appointed commander-in-chief of Gisenyi, Kibuye and part of Ruhengeri prefectures . He was responsible for the local militias Interahamwe and Impuzamugabi , for which he demanded arms deliveries from the defense minister.

On April 6, Nsengiyumva learned of the president's death in a plane crash. He made several phone calls to the military in Kigali , including Théoneste Bagosora . According to witnesses, he was instrumental in coordinating the genocide that began after Habyarimana's death in the weeks that followed. So he participated in the organization of a campaign in the mountains of Biserero, in which tens of thousands of Tutsi were killed.

Following the end of the regime and the RPF conquering Rwanda, Nsengiyumva was arrested on March 27, 1996 and transferred to the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda in January of the following year. His trial began on April 2, 2002. The charges in this Military Trial I were of preparing the genocide for the purpose of maintaining power, monitoring the development of the Interahamwe and Impuzamugabi, drawing up lists of people to be murdered and ordering the killings in Gisenyi.

literature

Linda Melvern: Rwanda The Genocide and the Participation of the Western World , Heinrich Hugendubel Verlag, Kreuzlingen / Munich 2004, pp. 34 f., 42, 46, 49 ff., 61 f., 64 ff., 143, 151, 197 ff ., 200 ff., 252, 267, 287, 293, 301. ISBN 3-7205-2486-8 .

Web links

• Report on Trial Watch

Notes and individual references

1. ↑ Linda Melvern: Rwanda, Genocide and the Involvement of the Western World, p. 46.
2. ↑ Linda Melvern: Rwanda Genocide and the Involvement of the Western World, p. 65.
3. ↑ Linda Melvern: Rwanda The Genocide and the Involvement of the Western World, pp. 197-202.