ICTR BULLETIN DU TPIR No. 7, October 2002 ISSN 1020-9441 « REWARDS FOR JUSTICE » Ad Litem Judges for ICTR C’est le troisième haut responsable normalisation des relations Rwando- Rwandais soupçonné de congolaises, lui qui s’est longtemps On 14 August 2002, the Security participation au génocide de 1994 cru intouchable. Council of the United Nations arrêté depuis la publication par le unanimously adopted Resolution 14 31 Gouvernement des Etats Unis d’une Grande a dû être la surprise de (2002) which enables the creation of a liste de neuf suspects sur lesquels le Tharcisse Renzaho au matin du 29 pool of eighteen ad litem judges. Procureur voudrait bien mettre la septembre lorsque les officiels du Welcoming the adoption of the main. Bien qu’il ne figure pas sur TPIR appuyés par la police resolution, the President of ICTR, Judge cette liste, parcequ’il ne fait pas congolaise sont venus le cueillir. Le Navanethem Pillay said, “This measure encore l’objet d’un acte chant du premier gallinacé n’avait will significantly enhance the capacity d’accusation formel, Tharcisse pas encore retenti, ni les premiers of the Tribunal to dispose of the cases Renzaho a été arrêté en vertu de rayons du crépuscule éclairés le pending before it”. l’article 40 bis du Règlement de fleuve Congo et dissipés la brume Procédure et de preuves qui permet qui recouvrait Kinshasa encore However, the amendments brought to l’arrestation et le transfert d’un endormi, qu’il était à bord de the Statute by Resolution 1431 provide suspect sur lequel pèsent des indices l’avion qui devait le ramener à for only four of the ad litem judges to sit graves et concordants tendant à présent à Arusha. Combien in the Trial Chambers at any one time, montrer que ce dernier aurait éphémères peuvent être les rather than the nine proposed by the commis des infractions qui tombent alliances, a t-il dû se dire. Tribunal. sur la compétence du Tribunal. Depuis le début de l’opération Ad litem judges are special additional Ancien préfet de Kigali-ville «Rewards for Justice» initié par les judges, appointed for a non-renewable présenté par le Procureur comme Américains, plus aucun de ses term of four years in order to increase l’un des acteurs clefs de la tragédie anciens compagnons de cavale ne the Tribunal's capacity to deal with its rwandais, il va méditer à l’ombre doit dormir. Plus aucun d’entre eux case load with due dispatch. The des parloirs du centre de détention ne doit se sentir à l’abri d’une number of permanent judges and their sur sa longue fuite qui l’aura mené dénonciation même s’il ne figure terms of service remain unchanged. de ses vertes collines rwandaises au pas sur la liste des neufs recherchés. bourbier congolais à l’Est de la Il faut dire que la prime ou les Resolution 1431 calls upon the République Démocratique du primes offertes à quiconque aiderait Secretary General to make the practical Congo et à Kinshasa, la capitale. Il à leurs arrestations sont alléchantes. arrangements for the election of the doit très certainement aujourd’hui Elles feraient tourner bien des têtes. eighteen ad litem judges as soon as sa retraite forcée au processus de Cinq millions de dollars. Rien que possible and for Member States to ça. Il y a de quoi susciter bien des cooperate fully with the ICTR. vocations même tardives. Mais CONTENTS autant dire que la tâche ne sera pas The text of the Security Council SOMMAIRE facile pour qui se découvrirait une Resolution and the deta iled provisions News/Actualités............................ 1 nouvelle vocation: chasseurs de of the Statute governing the election and Trials in Progress / primes. Seule al coopération des service of the ad litem judges are Procès en cours............................ 7 autorités de la République available on the ICTR website Digest / Chronique ........................9 Démocratique du Congo a permis www.ictr.org l’arrestation de l’ancien Préfet. Judicial Decisions / Decisions judiciaries................... 13 (… suite à la p. 3) PURL: https://www.legal-tools.org/doc/68004d/ Vol. 7, October 2002 ICTR BULLETIN DU TPIR Page 2 General Bizimungu and Gatete Bizimungu was promoted to the rank of General and appointed Chief of Staff following the plane crash on 6 Plead Not Guilty April 1994 in which the President of Rwanda, Juvénal Habyarimana, and the then Army Chief of Staff, Two more accused persons were recently arrested and Colonel Déogratias Nsabimana, were killed. transferred to the UN Detention Facility in Arusha to face prosecution for their involvement in the 1994 Charges against Getete allege that despite his dismissal genocide in Rwanda. They are General Augustin as Bourgmestre in 1993 following allegations that he Bizimungu, former Chief of Staff of the Rwandan persecuted Tutsis, the accused continued to exercise de Army who was arrested in Angola on 2 August 2002 facto authority over police, gendarmes and civilian and was transferred on 14 August 2002 and Jean - militias. He is alleged to have led a campaign of terror Baptiste Gatete, former Mayor of Murambi Commune against Tutsi civilians resulting in thousands of deaths in Byumba prefecture, who was arrested in the in Byumba and Kibungo prefectures. “[The accused] Republic of Congo on 11 September 2002 and was killed persons by his own hand, specifically ordered transferred on 13 September 2002. killings by subordinates, and led attacks,” the court was told. Under his command and direction, the On 21 August 2002 Bizimungu entered a plea of not Interahamwe militias are alleged to have massacred guilty to the charges against him when he appeared several thousand Tustsi civilians who had taken refuge before Judge Pavel Dolenc (Slovenia). Bizimungu is in Mukaranga, Rukara and Kiziguro churches. charged with ten counts of genocide, conspiracy to commit genocide, crimes against humanity and serious At Kiziguro church, for example, Gatete and his group violations of the Geneva Conventions. of Interahamwe are alleged to have broken through the portals of the compound and forced Tutsi refugees to On 20 September 2002 Gatete also pleaded not guilty exit, “First the men, and later a number of the to the charges preferred against him when he appeared remaining women, were forced to lie on their before Judge Yakov Ostrovsky (Russian Federation). stomachs, whereupon Interahamwe and civilian Gatete is facing ten counts charging him with genocide, militias hacked them to death using traditional or in the alternative, complicity in genocide; direct and weapons.” public incitement to commit genocide; crimes against humanity for extermination, murder, persecution and The accused is also alleged to have urged the rape; and serious violations of the Geneva Interahamwe and other civilian forces to rape and then Conventions. kill Tusti women. Addressing a crowd in Kayonza commune Gatete is said to have urged the locals to “rid Bizimungu is one of the most senior former Rwandan themselves of the filth by killing the children and military commanders apprehended by the Tribunal to raping the women before killing them.” Immediately date. He is also the first to be detained of nine principal thereafter a number of Tutsi women were dragged genocide suspects named by the Government of the behind a nearby building and serially raped. A date for United States in its “Rewards for Justice” programme, his trial will be fixed in due course. which is supporting the Tribunal's efforts to apprehend high-ranking fugitives from justice. The accused is jointly indicted with four other accused, Renzaho Arrested in the DRC General Augustin Ndindiliyimana, former Chief of Staff of the Gendarmerie Nationale, Major Francois - Colonel Tharcisse Renzaho, former prefect of Kigali - Xavier Nzuwonemeye, Commander of the ville during the 1994 Rwandan genocide was arrested Reconnaissance Batallion, Captain Innocent Sagahutu on 29 September in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of second in command of the Reconnaissance Batallion Congo (DRC), pursuant to Rule 40bis of the Rules and (who are already in the Tribunal's custody), and Major Procedure and Evidence of the Tribunal. Protais Mpiranya, Commander of the Presidential Guard who is also on the “Rewards for Justice” wanted The arrest of Colonel Renzaho is the first of its kind to list. His arrest was effected by the Angolan authorities be carried out in the DRC and is the third arrest since at Luena, in eastern Angola, acting on the basis of an the announcement of the U.S. Government’s Rewards arrest warrant issued by ICTR on 12 April 2002. for Justice campaign identified nine high-profile According to the Angolan authorities Bizimungu had suspects. (See also article on p. 1) been fighting for the Angolan rebel movement, UNITA, and was identified during the process of Under Rule 40 bis, the Prosecutor can request the demobilization of UNITA forces in the context of the arrest, transfer and provisional detention of a suspect in Angola peace settlement. This was the first arrest on the ICTR detention facility if there is reliable and behalf of the ICTR to be carried out in Angola. No date consistent evidence that the suspect may have yet has been fixed for the Trial on the merits. committed a crime over which the Tribunal has jurisdiction. 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