Photo: Jack Nziza
French anti-terrorist Judges Marc Trevin and Nathalie Poux have indicted six close aides to Rwandan President Paul Kagame. The six are accused of shooting down a plane carrying the late Rwandan and Burundian Presidents Juvenal Habyarimana and Cyprien Ntaryamira.
The assassination of the two presidents and their staff, along with the french crew triggered the Rwandan massacres of 1994.
The indictments, with the aim of lifting or keeping the arrest warrants against the accused, happened from December 5 to December 15, 2010 in the Burundian capital Bujumbura. The pending arrest warrants were issued by the former French anti-terrorist judge Jean-Louis Bruguiere. This led to severed diplomatic relations between Rwanda and France. The relations were eventually restored when France agreed to revisiting the case and Rwanda had one of the accused appear before the French courts.
Those who were indicted in Burundi include:
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