He has since lost a legal battle against his extradition to the ICTR. The former director of Indiro ballet, who was one of the most popular musicians in Rwanda, is notably charged with having composed and performed songs demonising Tutsis and inciting Hutus to kill Tutsis. Bikindi's music has been banned in Rwanda since the end of the 1994 genocide. Bikindi is charged with six counts of genocide, conspiracy to commit genocide, complicity in genocide, direct and public incitement to commit genocide andmurder and persecution as crimes against humanity. An estimated one million Tutsis and politically moderate Hutus were killed in the 1994 genocide in Rwanda according to an official survey by the government of Rwanda. Bikindi was an official in the ministry of youth and sports and a member of the ruling MRND party in 1994. GG/JA/FH(SB-0328e)
