Colonel Bagosora and Lieutenant-Colonel Nsengiyumva have separate indictments while Major Ntabakuze and Brigadier-General Kabiligi are charged in a joint indictment.
Indictment and Arrests
Colonel Bagosora and Lieutenant-Colonel Nsengiyumva have separate indictments while Major Ntabakuze and Brigadier-General Kabiligi are charged in a joint indictment.
Colonel Bagosora is facing twelve counts charging him with conspiracy to commit genocide, genocide, complicity in genocide, direct and public incitement to commit genocide, crimes against humanity for murder, extermination, rape, persecution and other inhumane acts, and violations of the Geneva Conventions.
The accused is alleged to have made speeches, which incited, encouraged and promoted ethnic hatred and violence against Tutsis and moderate Hutus in Rwanda in 1994. He was also allegedly instrumental in recruiting, training and arming members of the militia groups and then ordering them to kill Tutsis and moderate Hutus. He is alleged to have conspired with others to work out a plan with intent to exterminate the civilian Tutsis and members of the opposition. To implement the plan, Bagosora and members of his group are alleged to have organised, orderedand participated in the massacres perpetrated against the Tutsi population and moderate Hutus.
Bagosora was arrested on 9 March 1996 in Cameroon and was transferred to the UN Detention Facility in Arusha on 23 January 1997. On 20 February 1997 he made his initial appearance before the Tribunal and pleaded not guilty to all the charges preferred against him.
Indictment and Arrests
Colonel Bagosora and Lieutenant-Colonel Nsengiyumva have separate indictments while Major Ntabakuze and Brigadier-General Kabiligi are charged in a joint indictment.
Colonel Bagosora is facing twelve counts charging him with conspiracy to commit genocide, genocide, complicity in genocide, direct and public incitement to commit genocide, crimes against humanity for murder, extermination, rape, persecution and other inhumane acts, and violations of the Geneva Conventions.
The accused is alleged to have made speeches, which incited, encouraged and promoted ethnic hatred and violence against Tutsis and moderate Hutus in Rwanda in 1994. He was also allegedly instrumental in recruiting, training and arming members of the militia groups and then ordering them to kill Tutsis and moderate Hutus. He is alleged to have conspired with others to work out a plan with intent to exterminate the civilian Tutsis and members of the opposition. To implement the plan, Bagosora and members of his group are alleged to have organised, orderedand participated in the massacres perpetrated against the Tutsi population and moderate Hutus.
Bagosora was arrested on 9 March 1996 in Cameroon and was transferred to the UN Detention Facility in Arusha on 23 January 1997. On 20 February 1997 he made his initial appearance before the Tribunal and pleaded not guilty to all the charges preferred against him.