Highlights:
The infamous Rwanda Genocide of 1994 mastermind Ladislas Ntaganzwa was on March 20, 2016 extradited back to Rwanda after his arrest in 2015 in DR Congo. He was handed over to National Public Prosecution of Rwanda (NPPA).
Ntaganzwa is said to be one of the principal architects of the 1994 genocide against the in which over a million Rwandans were brutally killed.
Summary:
A key architect of the deadly 1994 Rwanda genocide has been extradited back to Rwanda following his 2015 arrest in Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). He is accused of being one of the major masterminds of the Rwanda genocide that left at least a million Rwandans dead.
Ntaganzwa was the former mayor of Nyakizu Commune and was a senior member and chairman of the MDR of Nyakizu commune.
He is accused of participating in genocide, direct and public incitement to commit genocide, extermination, murder and rapes as well as crimes against humanity.
According to Jean Bosco who heads the Genocide Fugitives Tracking Unit, said that they are very impressed with the extradition seeing as he Ntaganzwa was one of the last fugitives indicted by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR).
In 2012, ICTR, as part of its completion strategy, decided to hand to Rwandan prosecution case files of six of the nine major suspects who remained at large. Among them are, Ladislas Ntaganzwa, Fulgence Kayishema, Charles Sikubwayo, Aloys Ndimbati, Ryandikayo and Pheneas Munyarugarama.
Ntaganzwa is among the suspects on the US State Department Reward for Justice Programme and he had a $5 million bounty on his head. He is the third mastermind to be extradited to Rwanda after Jean Uwinkindi who was sentenced to life last year as well as Bernard Munyagishari whose trial is ongoing.
