Revealed: Rwanda genocide war crimes tribunal wraps up mission after 29 years

Skulls belonging to victims of the 1994 Rwandan genocide are placed together in Mubirizi, Rusizi district, in 2023 after more than 1,100 bodies were found in one of the largest mass graves from the atrocities of 1994.Skulls belonging to victims of the 1994 Rwandan genocide are placed together in Mubirizi, Rusizi district, in 2023 after more than 1,100 bodies were found in one of the largest mass graves from the atrocities of 1994.

“This is a tangible demonstration that the international community can ensure accountability is achieved, no matter how long it takes,” Brammertz said. The striking effectiveness of the twin tribunals had fuelled optimism in the late 1990s that impunity for genocide and other mass crimes could finally be challenged and pushed back, and the momentum they created led to the establishment in 2002 of a permanent institution to investigate and judge war crimes, the

“Starting from the minute their feet left the Rwandan border in 1994, it is about source exploitation and investigation and witness interviewing until we got to the last piece of the puzzle,” said Ewan Brown, a former British army officer who is co-leader of the tracking team.The eight-person team had made Sikubwabo and Ryandikayo their final targets because they were relatively small cogs in the killing machine unleashed in 1994, and because their trail had gone particularly cold.

At the end of the 100-day genocide and the fall of the Hutu government in Kigali, the two men fled to camps in what was then Zaire, now the Democratic Republic of the Congo. From there, Riyandikayo went to the capital, Kinshasa, via the smaller Republic of Congo, while Sikubwabo made his way through to the Republic of Congo and Central African Republic before arriving in Chad in 1997.

“A lot of people never believed something like this was possible – the investigations, the prosecutions and finding the fugitives,” Hughes said. “I hope people walk away from this experience with the fact that all this is very possible when you get a good bright group of dedicated people together, even a small little team. It’s amazing what people can do.

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