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- At Belgian trial, two former Interahamwe leaders dodge testifying
- Dieudonné Niyitegeka and Eugène Mbarushimana are the only two surviving former members of the National Committee of the Interahamwe, the militia that spearheaded the genocide…
- Nkunduwimye drops defence of his friend Rutaganda
- Emmanuel Nkunduwimye is accused in a Belgian court of having participated in the 1994 genocide of Tutsis in Rwanda alongside his friend Georges Rutaganda, who…
- Belgian court to start new Rwandan genocide trial
- The trial of Emmanuel Nkunduwimye is to start on April 8 before the Brussels Assize Court, 30 years after the Rwandan genocide against the Tutsis…
- Vincent Lurquin: "having the humanity to defend someone accused of the worst crimes"
- For once, we meet Vincent Lurquin outside the courtroom. Without his robe but with the same debonair air that characterises him, the lawyer shares with…
- "What judicial truth without material evidence?"
- During their closing arguments, Vincent and Juliette Lurquin went out of their way to defend their client Séraphin Twahirwa, a Rwandan charged before the Brussels…
- "They were founders of a ruthless militia in Kigali"
- Pierre Basabosé and Séraphin Twahirwa were behind a group of murderous Interahamwe in the Gikondo sector of Kigali in 1994. This was the Belgian prosecutor’s…
- "There was no roadblock, there wasn’t the space"
- The genocide trial of Rwandans Séraphin Twahirwa and Pierre Basabosé began in Belgium on October 9. During his first interrogation, Twahirwa denied any connection with…
- Pierre Basabosé is "mentally absent” but will be tried
- Former Rwandan soldier and businessman Pierre Basabosé is less well known than Félicien Kabuga, whose trial was definitively stopped by a UN court on August…
- Belgian colonial past: "This issue will come back and demand to be tackled”
- At the end of 2022, a special parliamentary commission meant to shed light on the Belgian colonial period ended in bitter failure. What do representatives…
- Belgian colonial past: Commission fails on apology to victims
- The commission on Belgium's colonial past was a pioneer in Europe, but it collapsed at the finish line at the end of December, stripped of…
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