{"id":131883,"date":"2024-05-14T10:56:31","date_gmt":"2024-05-14T08:56:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/?p=131883"},"modified":"2024-05-14T10:56:49","modified_gmt":"2024-05-14T08:56:49","slug":"witnesses-defect-nkunduwimye-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/131883-witnesses-defect-nkunduwimye-trial.html","title":{"rendered":"Witnesses defect from the Nkunduwimye trial"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>The Brussels Assize Court, which is currently trying Belgian-Rwandan Emmanuel Nkunduwimye for genocide, is facing a major defection of witnesses. The latest is Paul Rusesabagina, former manager of the H\u00f4tel des Mille Collines in Kigali in 1994, who has finally refused to appear. Around a third of witnesses called failed to turn up, including at least three who were much anticipated. The defence could benefit from this.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>On Monday May 13, the Brussels Assize Court had to do without the testimony of a key witness, Paul Rusesabagina. The former manager of the H\u00f4tel des Mille Collines in Kigali, who lives in the United States, refused to testify by videoconference and explain what he knows of Emmanuel Nkunduwimye\u2019s activities during the Tutsi genocide between April and July 1994. Rusesabagina, whose story is famous and inspired the film Hotel Rwanda - a successful work of fiction recounting how this manager of the Rwandan capital\u2019s main hotel took in and protected over a thousand Tutsis and Hutus threatened with massacre, knew well Nkunduwimye, currently on trial in Belgium. According to the investigation, between April and May 1994 he transferred to the hotel numerous people threatened with death, in exchange for payment. Nkunduwimye was also said to have regularly come to the hotel to sell food and drink from the loot, in the company of his friend Georges Rutaganda, vice-president of the National Committee of the Interahamwe, the militia that spearheaded the genocide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Should Nkunduwimye be regarded as a self-interested saviour, or as an accomplice of Rutaganda and his militia who might have participated in the massacres while sparing the lives of some if there was the scent of money? This is a question that the trial is trying to clarify. However, its efforts are increasingly being undermined by the absence of key witnesses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The accused\u2019s version is that he supplied the H\u00f4tel des Mille Collines sometimes without being paid, aware that the most important thing was to help all the refugees there. But how can we verify this? He also said that Rusesabagina was not a saviour but a manipulator, driven by money. What does Rusesabagina have to say about this?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-the-big-absentees\">The big absentees<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>All these questions remain unanswered. After the genocide and his exile in the United States, the former hotel manager became a fierce political opponent of Rwandan President Paul Kagame. The success of the film made him a hero, and he was received by the American president, giving him a remarkable public platform and arousing the ire of the Rwandan authorities. In 2020, deceived by Rwandan intelligence services, he was forcibly returned to Rwanda, imprisoned, tried for terrorism and sentenced to 25 years in prison. He was released and deported at the end of March 2023, thanks to negotiations between the US and Rwanda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Not knowing Rusesabagina\u2019s version of his regular contacts during the genocide with Nkunduwimye and Rutaganda (sentenced to life by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, ICTR, in 2003 and deceased in 2010), obviously hampers the debate. Back in April, the court deplored the absence of two key witnesses to the genocide, former top Interahamwe leaders Eug\u00e8ne Mbarushimana and Dieudonn\u00e9 Niyitegeka. Parties to the trial were expected to put many questions to these two men, whose testimony was eagerly awaited as they were respectively Secretary General and Treasurer of the Interahamwe National Committee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mbarushimana, who lives in Belgium, did appear in the witness room, but could not be heard given that an investigation by the Belgian Federal Prosecutor\u2019s Office suspects him of personal involvement in the genocide. The court did not want to take the risk that he might incriminate himself in his own case by testifying in this trial. As for Niyitegeka, who lives under protection in Canada after having collaborated intensively with the ICTR prosecutor, he ultimately refused to testify, even by videoconference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-risk-of-proceedings-being-inadmissible\">Risk of proceedings being inadmissible<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>But these three major absences are not the only ones. Many other witnesses were unable to be heard for various reasons. The court deplored the death of some of them between the dispatch of summonses and the start of trial on April 8. It also received several medical certificates for very elderly witnesses whose frail health prevented them from being heard. Others simply did not show up. These defections were so palpable that, on April 24, none of the three witnesses scheduled to be heard that morning turned up. Twenty minutes after starting, the hearing was suspended for the rest of the morning. And so, with the end of trial scheduled for the end of May, around a third of the witnesses called have evaporated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The defence was quick to react, pointing out that reading out the statements of absent witnesses during the investigation does not replace a hearing in the context of an adversarial debate, and contravenes the sacrosanct principle of oral proceedings in the Assize Court. \u201cAre we still in a position to judge?\u201d asked lawyer Dimitri de B\u00e9co on April 24. \u201cIt makes me uncomfortable, Madam President, because I can\u2019t ask the witnesses for certain details which would enable me to know whether what they are saying is what they actually saw or only what they heard. This is obviously very important. We know that with witnesses who came forward, they told investigators in their hearings what they thought they knew about the facts but that they hadn\u2019t actually seen anything.\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The lawyer hinted that he was seriously considering asking for the prosecution against his client to be declared inadmissible, given that the defence does not have the opportunity to question witnesses. The risk of a judicial fiasco is very real.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"articleLink articleLink--editorRecommanded articleLink--textInImage articleLink--textTop\" style=\"\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t<div class=\"articleLinkSurTitle\">Recommended reading<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t<a class=\"articleLinkImageLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/fr\/130650-nkunduwimye-lache-ami-rutaganda.html\"><div class=\"articleLinkImageContainer \"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"540\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/Rwanda-Belgique_proces-Emmanuel-Nkunduwimye-Georges-Rutaganda_@Benoit-Doppagne-Belga-Alexander-Joe-AFP-540x360.jpg\" class=\"articleLinkImage backgroundImageTag w-100 wp-post-image\" alt=\"Proc\u00e8s rwandais en Belgique - Emmanuel Nkunduwimye, accus\u00e9, l\u00e2che Georges Rutaganda, accus\u00e9 \u00e9galement d&#039;avoir particip\u00e9 au g\u00e9nocide des Tutsis au Rwanda en 1994. Photo : 2 portraits c\u00f4t\u00e9 \u00e0 c\u00f4te.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/Rwanda-Belgique_proces-Emmanuel-Nkunduwimye-Georges-Rutaganda_@Benoit-Doppagne-Belga-Alexander-Joe-AFP-540x360.jpg 540w, https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/Rwanda-Belgique_proces-Emmanuel-Nkunduwimye-Georges-Rutaganda_@Benoit-Doppagne-Belga-Alexander-Joe-AFP-1000x667.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/Rwanda-Belgique_proces-Emmanuel-Nkunduwimye-Georges-Rutaganda_@Benoit-Doppagne-Belga-Alexander-Joe-AFP-1110x740.jpg 1110w, https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/Rwanda-Belgique_proces-Emmanuel-Nkunduwimye-Georges-Rutaganda_@Benoit-Doppagne-Belga-Alexander-Joe-AFP.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/div><\/a>\r\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/fr\/130650-nkunduwimye-lache-ami-rutaganda.html\" class=\"articleLinkTitle articleLinkTitle--default\">\r\n\t\t\tNkunduwimye l\u00e2che son ami Rutaganda\r\n\t\t<\/a>\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Brussels Assize Court, which is currently trying Belgian-Rwandan Emmanuel Nkunduwimye for genocide, is facing a major defection of witnesses. The latest is Paul Rusesabagina, former manager of the H\u00f4tel des Mille Collines in Kigali in 1994, who has finally refused to appear. Around a third of witnesses called failed to turn up, including at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":78,"featured_media":131876,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2801],"tags":[2635],"ji_location":[2431],"class_list":["post-131883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-universal-jurisdiction","tag-genocide-2","ji_location-rwanda"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.3.1 (Yoast SEO v25.3.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Witnesses defect from the Nkunduwimye trial<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Belgium, which is currently trying Emmanuel Nkunduwimye for genocide in Rwanda, is facing a major defection of witnesses. The latest is Paul Rusesabagina, former manager of the H\u00f4tel des Mille Collines in Kigali in 1994.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/131883-witnesses-defect-nkunduwimye-trial.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Witnesses defect from the Nkunduwimye trial\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Belgium, which is currently trying Emmanuel Nkunduwimye for genocide in Rwanda, is facing a major defection of witnesses. The latest is Paul Rusesabagina, former manager of the H\u00f4tel des Mille Collines in Kigali in 1994.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/131883-witnesses-defect-nkunduwimye-trial.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"JusticeInfo.net\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/JusticeInfo\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2024-05-14T08:56:31+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-05-14T08:56:49+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/Rwanda_hotel-des-mille-collines_2017.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1941\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1294\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"gponselet\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@GPonselet\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@justiceinfonet\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"gponselet\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"6 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"NewsArticle\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/131883-witnesses-defect-nkunduwimye-trial.html#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/131883-witnesses-defect-nkunduwimye-trial.html\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"gponselet\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/54c8e9b9b4c3085fe9bf53e55efb3a62\"},\"headline\":\"Witnesses defect from the Nkunduwimye trial\",\"datePublished\":\"2024-05-14T08:56:31+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2024-05-14T08:56:49+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/131883-witnesses-defect-nkunduwimye-trial.html\"},\"wordCount\":945,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/131883-witnesses-defect-nkunduwimye-trial.html#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/Rwanda_hotel-des-mille-collines_2017.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"genocide\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Universal jurisdiction\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/131883-witnesses-defect-nkunduwimye-trial.html\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/131883-witnesses-defect-nkunduwimye-trial.html\",\"name\":\"Witnesses defect from the Nkunduwimye trial\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/131883-witnesses-defect-nkunduwimye-trial.html#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/131883-witnesses-defect-nkunduwimye-trial.html#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/Rwanda_hotel-des-mille-collines_2017.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2024-05-14T08:56:31+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2024-05-14T08:56:49+00:00\",\"description\":\"Belgium, which is currently trying Emmanuel Nkunduwimye for genocide in Rwanda, is facing a major defection of witnesses. The latest is Paul Rusesabagina, former manager of the H\u00f4tel des Mille Collines in Kigali in 1994.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/131883-witnesses-defect-nkunduwimye-trial.html#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/131883-witnesses-defect-nkunduwimye-trial.html\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/131883-witnesses-defect-nkunduwimye-trial.html#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/Rwanda_hotel-des-mille-collines_2017.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/Rwanda_hotel-des-mille-collines_2017.jpg\",\"width\":1941,\"height\":1294,\"caption\":\"The Hotel des Mille Collines, in the heart of the Rwandan capital, was a safe haven in 1994 for several hundred Tutsis and Hutus hunted down by militiamen. Emmanuel Nkunduwimye, now on trial in Belgium, says he supplied the hotel during the genocide. But was he a greedy accomplice of the killers or a businessman with no ill intentions?\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/131883-witnesses-defect-nkunduwimye-trial.html#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Witnesses defect from the Nkunduwimye trial\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/\",\"name\":\"JusticeInfo.net\",\"description\":\"For justice to be done, it must be seen\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/#organization\",\"name\":\"Justice Info\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/justiceinfo_logo-trans_1200x1200px.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/justiceinfo_logo-trans_1200x1200px.png\",\"width\":1199,\"height\":1200,\"caption\":\"Justice Info\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/JusticeInfo\/\",\"https:\/\/x.com\/justiceinfonet\",\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/justice-info\",\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCyCEsARodyuWtkWyhn-e7pA\"]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"name\":\"gponselet\",\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/x.com\/GPonselet\"],\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/auteur\/gponselet\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Witnesses defect from the Nkunduwimye trial","description":"Belgium, which is currently trying Emmanuel Nkunduwimye for genocide in Rwanda, is facing a major defection of witnesses. The latest is Paul Rusesabagina, former manager of the H\u00f4tel des Mille Collines in Kigali in 1994.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/131883-witnesses-defect-nkunduwimye-trial.html","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Witnesses defect from the Nkunduwimye trial","og_description":"Belgium, which is currently trying Emmanuel Nkunduwimye for genocide in Rwanda, is facing a major defection of witnesses. The latest is Paul Rusesabagina, former manager of the H\u00f4tel des Mille Collines in Kigali in 1994.","og_url":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/131883-witnesses-defect-nkunduwimye-trial.html","og_site_name":"JusticeInfo.net","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/JusticeInfo\/","article_published_time":"2024-05-14T08:56:31+00:00","article_modified_time":"2024-05-14T08:56:49+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1941,"height":1294,"url":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/Rwanda_hotel-des-mille-collines_2017.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"gponselet","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@GPonselet","twitter_site":"@justiceinfonet","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"gponselet","Est. reading time":"6 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/131883-witnesses-defect-nkunduwimye-trial.html#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/131883-witnesses-defect-nkunduwimye-trial.html"},"author":{"name":"gponselet","@id":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/54c8e9b9b4c3085fe9bf53e55efb3a62"},"headline":"Witnesses defect from the Nkunduwimye trial","datePublished":"2024-05-14T08:56:31+00:00","dateModified":"2024-05-14T08:56:49+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/131883-witnesses-defect-nkunduwimye-trial.html"},"wordCount":945,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/131883-witnesses-defect-nkunduwimye-trial.html#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/Rwanda_hotel-des-mille-collines_2017.jpg","keywords":["genocide"],"articleSection":["Universal jurisdiction"],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/131883-witnesses-defect-nkunduwimye-trial.html","url":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/131883-witnesses-defect-nkunduwimye-trial.html","name":"Witnesses defect from the Nkunduwimye trial","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/131883-witnesses-defect-nkunduwimye-trial.html#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/131883-witnesses-defect-nkunduwimye-trial.html#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/Rwanda_hotel-des-mille-collines_2017.jpg","datePublished":"2024-05-14T08:56:31+00:00","dateModified":"2024-05-14T08:56:49+00:00","description":"Belgium, which is currently trying Emmanuel Nkunduwimye for genocide in Rwanda, is facing a major defection of witnesses. The latest is Paul Rusesabagina, former manager of the H\u00f4tel des Mille Collines in Kigali in 1994.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/131883-witnesses-defect-nkunduwimye-trial.html#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/131883-witnesses-defect-nkunduwimye-trial.html"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/131883-witnesses-defect-nkunduwimye-trial.html#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/Rwanda_hotel-des-mille-collines_2017.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/Rwanda_hotel-des-mille-collines_2017.jpg","width":1941,"height":1294,"caption":"The Hotel des Mille Collines, in the heart of the Rwandan capital, was a safe haven in 1994 for several hundred Tutsis and Hutus hunted down by militiamen. Emmanuel Nkunduwimye, now on trial in Belgium, says he supplied the hotel during the genocide. But was he a greedy accomplice of the killers or a businessman with no ill intentions?"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/131883-witnesses-defect-nkunduwimye-trial.html#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Witnesses defect from the Nkunduwimye trial"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/","name":"JusticeInfo.net","description":"For justice to be done, it must be seen","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/#organization","name":"Justice Info","url":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/justiceinfo_logo-trans_1200x1200px.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/justiceinfo_logo-trans_1200x1200px.png","width":1199,"height":1200,"caption":"Justice Info"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/JusticeInfo\/","https:\/\/x.com\/justiceinfonet","https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/justice-info","https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCyCEsARodyuWtkWyhn-e7pA"]},{"@type":"Person","name":"gponselet","sameAs":["https:\/\/x.com\/GPonselet"],"url":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/auteur\/gponselet"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/78"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131883"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":131887,"href":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131883\/revisions\/131887"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131883"},{"taxonomy":"ji_location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ji_location?post=131883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}