07/14/98 THE 06:32 FAX 212 9634879 UNATIONS RIZA ilOOl 14/07 '98 11:38 FAX 212 963 2848 ICTR ARUSHA IQBAL RIZA USG ElOOl/004 iCTR COMMUNICATIONS CENTRE UNITED NATIONS NATIONS UNITS!!! JUL DCTT'iVKn I u i A H: 31 ' International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda | *mH&m.' • -ii iflaa 1 Tribunal penal international pour le Rwanda U The Registrar Le Greffier P.O. Box 6016, Arnsha, Tanzania Tel: 255 57 4207-11/43*7-72 or 1 211963 2850 — Fai: 255 57 4000/4373 or I 212 9(S3 2S48 THANSMTSSTON — Ttt ATtfSMTSSTON PAR TF.T.F. Date: 13 July 1998 Ref: ICTR/RO/7/98/103 To: Mr. Iqbal Riza Prom: Agwu Uldwe Okali <i/\ — -^ Under-Secretary-General Assistant Secretarjj/^elieral Chef de Cabinet The Registrar f y Esocutivo Office of the Secretary-General United Nations TM>w Vnrk Fax No.: 212-963-4879 Reply Fax: 255-57-4373/4000 or 1-212-963-2848 Subject: ICTR arrests and transfers of genocide suspects and accused 1. Please find attached for your information a press release on a significant recent development in the work of the ICTR. 2. This operation, which has been planned and implemented by the Registay"and the Office of the Prosecutor, is indicative of the progress that the Tribunal is making in ajw spheres -judicial and administrative. 3. Best regards. Drafted by: Cleared by: No of transmitted pages including cover sheet: 07/14/98 TUE 06:32 [TX/RX NO 7990] g|001 07/14/98 TUB 06:33 FAX 212 9634879 UNATIONS ->-»^ RIZA J002 14/07 '98 11:38 FAX 212 963 2848 ICTR ARUSHA -» IQBAL RIZA ISG 0002/004 UNITED NATIONS NATIONS UNIES International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda ? Tribunal p£ual international pour le Rwanda ppr* Press and Public Affairs Unit v-r Arasha luternaikmal Conference Centre P.O. Box 6016, Anuba, Tanzania Tel: 233 37 4207-11/4307-71 ui I 21Z 943 2S3O—Fuvi 293 37 4000/4373 ur 1 212 943 234S E-Mail: [email protected] PRESS RELEASE fn'on official- for media information only) ICTR/INFO-9-2-131 Arusha, 11 July 1998 > FOUR SUSPECTS, ONE ACCUSED TRANSFERRED TO ARUSHA our suspects and one accused person, arrested in West Africa last month for allegedly being involved in the Rwanda genocide of 1994, were transferred to the Tribunal's FDetention Facility in Arusha on 10 July 1998. This brings to 31 the number of suspects and accused persons presently detained under the authority of the Tribunal. The four suspects are Mr. Mathieu Ngirumpatse, a former Director General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and President of the former ruling party, MRND (Mouvement republicain national pour la cfemoctrati'e et le deVe/oppement), Mr. Edouard Karemera, former Minister of Interior m the interim government of Rwanda during the genocide and former Vice-President of MNRD, Mr. Joseph Nzirorera, former President of the National Assembly and Secretary General of the MRND, and Mr. Omar Sciuaiiagu, a. Lmsiiicisiiiiaii and local leader of the /nteraha/nwe militia in the Gisenyi prefecture. The fifth person Is Mr. Emmanuel Bagambiki, former Prefect of Cyangugu, who has already been Indicted by the Tribunal on charges of Genocide, Crimes Again*!. Humanity and Violations of Article 3 Common to the Geneva Conventions of 1949 and of Additional Protocol II (1977). Mr. Ngirumpatse was arrested on the night of 11 June 1998 in Mali, Mr. Nzirorera on 5 June 1998 in Benin, Mr. Karemera and Mr. Bagambiki in Togo on 5 June 1998 and Mr. Serushago on the night of 10 June 1998 in Cote d'lvoire. Another1 Suspect Surrenders Voluntarily In a separate development, another suspect; Major Bernard Ntuyahaga, has surrendered himself to the Tribunal. He was transferred to the Tribunal's Detention Facility from the custody of the Tanzanian authorities on 10 July 1998, under the Tribunal's Rule 40 bis. Major Ntuyahaga was Officer (G4) in Charge of Logistics at the Kigali military camp from January 1994 to April 1994. He b ausjjcUBd of deiitn-ide, Crfmes against Humaniry, and Violations of Article 3 Common to the Geneva Conventions and of Additional Protocol II thereto. On 7 April 1994 he is suspected to have transported 1O Belgian soldiers who w*»r£» rn<=»mbprt; rrf th«=» 1 JnitpH Nation*; A«fcfanr-o Miccion in RvA/anda (UNAMIR) peacekeeping force to the Kigali military camp where they were subsequently killed. The Office of the Prosecutor believes that the Belgian soldiers were massacred in his presence and he failed to take any action to prevent these massacres. Major Ntuyahaga is the-first suspect or accused person to surrender voluntarily to the ICTR. NF3: For more information please contact Bacar Sy or Danfaid Mpumllwa through our E-Mail address: [email protected] or Tel: 1 212 983 2050 or 25S 57 4387-72 Fax:1 212 963 2848 or 255 57 4000/4373 Anjsfia WE WOULD ALSO APPRECIATE RECEIVING YOUR E-MAIL ADDRESS 07/14/98 TUB 06:32 [TX/RX NO 7990] lg]002 07/14/98 TUB 06:34 FAX 212 9634879 UNATIONS ->->-> RIZA lg]003 14/07 '98 11:39 FAX 212 963 2848 ICTR ARUSHA IQBAL RIZA USG i]003/004 * A notable feature of the persons presently detained under the authority of the Tribunal 3* in Arusha is that most of them are reputed ringleaders of the genocide in Rwanda in 1994. The detainees as of today are: POLITICAL LEADERS Jean KAMBANDA Prime Minister (Pleaded Guilty, convicted, awaiting sentencing) Edouard KAREMERA Minister of Interior of the interim government and Vice- President of the ruling party MRND Pauline NYIRAMASUHUKO Minister of Family and Women Affairs Andre NTAGERURA Minister of Transport Mathieu NGIRUMPATSE Director General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and President, MRND Joseph NZIRORERA President of the National Assembly and Secretary-General of the MRND Jean Bosco BARAYAGWIZA Director of Political Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs MILITARY LEADERS Thconcstc BAGOSORA Director of Cabinet, Ministry of Defence Gratien KABILIGI Brigadier-General in Forces Armies Rv/andaises (FAR) Anatole NSENGIYUMVA Lieutenant-Colonel, FAR Aloys NTABAKUZE Commander of Battalion, FAR Alphonse NTEZIRYAYO Commanding Officer of the Military Police, later Prefect of Butare from 17.06.94 to his exile Bernard NTUYAHAGA Officer (G4) in Charge of Logistics at the Kigali military camp MEDIA LEADERS Ferdinand N AH I MAN A Director of Radio T6/4visfon Libre des Mills Collines (RTLM) Hassan NGEZE Chief Editor, Kangura Newspaper Georges H.Y.j. RUGGIU Journalist, RTLM SENIOR GOVERNMENT ADMINISTRATORS Emmanuel BAGAMBIK1 Prefect (Governor) of Cyangugu Clement KAYISHEMA Prefect of Kibuye (Trial ongoing) Sylvain NSABIMANA Prefect of Butare Laurent SEMANZA Bourgmestre (Mayor) of Bicumbi Elie NDAYAMBAJE Bourgmestre of Muganza Joseph KANYABASHI Bourgmestre of Ngoma Jean Paul AKAYESU Bourgmestre of Taba (Judgement to be delivered shortly) NB: For more inrmation please contact Boor Sy or Danford Mpumiiwa through our E-Mail address: [email protected] or Tel: 1 212 963 2B50 or 255 57 4367-72 Faxrl 212 333 2848 or 255 57 4000/4373 ArvsMa WE WOULD ALSO APPRECIATE RECEIVING YOUR E-MAIL ADDRESS 07/14/98 TUB 06:32 [TX/RX NO 7990] @]003 07/14/98 TUE 06:34 FAX 212 9634879 UNATIONS -»-»•» RIZA 14/07 '98 11:40 FAX 212' 963 2848 ICTR ARUSHA IQBAL RIZA USG ?] 004/004 f-~ . S Georges RUTAGANDA Businessman & 2nd Vice-President of /nterahamwe (Trial ongoing) Omar SERUSHAGO Businessman and local leader of the Interahamwe militia in the Gisenyi prefecture Elizaphan NTAKIRUTIMANA Pastor, 7th Day Adventist in Kibuye (Detained rn the United States of America) Alfred MUSEMA Director of Tea Factory in Kibuye Samuel IMANISHIMWE Lieutenant in FAR Gerard NTAKIRUTIMANA Medical Doctor Obed RUZINDANA Businessman in Kibuye (Trial ongoing) Arsene Shalom NTAHOBAL1 Businessman Trial Chamber 2 Orders Replacement of E/IP Ndayambaje's Counsel Trial Chamber 2 this week granted a request by accused Elie Ndayambaje for the withdrawal of assigned Counsel, Mr. Charles Tchoungang, and Co-counsel, Mr. Jean- Jacques Makolle. The accused had argued that he had lost confidence in his Counsel. ""he Trial Chamber, composed of Judge Yakov Ostrovsky, presiding and Judges William *st- jle and Navanerfhp.m Pillay thf»n Hirp»r-t¥»H fhp Rpejicrrnr tn «ancnn? that tfio Couneol immediately returned the case files and related materials to the accused. Trial Chamber 2 also directed the Registrar to assign new Defence Counsel for the accused. Mr. Ndayambaje, a former Bourgmestre of Muganza, had earlier argued that he had lost confidence in his Defence Counsel due, inter alia, to the latter's "apathy, bluffing, failure to honour firm commitments" and lack of contact between the said Counsel and the accused. The accused had provided the Chamber documentation outlining his unsuccessful attempts to maintain contact with his Counsel from the time the Counsel was assigned to him. In reaching the decision the Chamber noted the Jack of a written reply from the Defence Counsel to the accused's motion, and the counsel's absence at the hearing of the motion. The Chamber further noted that replacement of a Counsel was a serious exercise, one not to be taken lightly. Rule 19 of the Directive on Assignment of Defence Counsel provides for the withdrawal of assigned defence counsel. Rule 19 (A) (i) of the Directive states that, "the Registrar may in exceptional circumstances, at the request of the accused or his counsel, withdraw the assignment of the counsel." Mr. Ndayambaje, arrested in Belgium on 28 June 1995, is charged with Genocide, Crimes Against Humanity and Violations of Article 3 Common to the Geneva Conventions and the 1977 Additional Protocol II thereto. He has pleaded *not guilty" to five counts.