The United Nations Criminal Courts Prosecution Organization reported on Thursday the capture of Fulence Kishma, a Rwandan national convicted of planning the murder of 2,000 people during the country's 1994 genocide.
Kayshma was captured in South Africa after more than 20 years on the run and is expected to be extradited to Rwandan international law, which convicted him in 2001. Kayshama was convicted of planning genocide, conspiracy to commit genocide and mass human rights violations. The man initially denied his identity but broke down and confessed less than a day later.
Polens Keishima, Photo: Reuters
According to the ruling, Kayshama planned the gift of a church in the town of Nyanga, north of the city of Rohengiri in the north of the country. Kayshma recruited members of the local Itramua militia to obtain a large quantity of fuel to burn the Tutsi, a minority group in the country that was a victim of the genocide. When the attempt to burn the building failed, he obtained a bulldozer and buried alive more than 2,000 men, women and children.
In 2020, Félicien Kabuga, one of the planners of the Rwandan genocide, was arrested. Kabuga, 84 at the time of his capture, was caught after living under a false identity in a suburb of the French capital Paris for nearly two decades. Kabuga is expected to face the International Criminal Court in The Hague.
About one million people were murdered in the genocide in the country. Rwanda, Photo: Moshe Shai
In the Rwandan genocide, nearly a million Tutsi were murdered by members of the country's majority Hutu group. The murder took place in less than three months in perfect coordination between the murderers, who used mainly machetes, knives, rifles and hand grenades. The massacre came to an end after Tutsi rebels managed to take control of the country.
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