UN prosecutor verifies death of Rwanda genocide suspect

Only two persons are still wanted by the Rwanda tribunal after the prosecutor tasked with tracking down the last fugitives from the U.N. war crimes court for Rwanda announced the death of genocide suspect Aloys Ndimbati on Tuesday.

The International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (IRMCT) has confirmed the deaths of four other fugitives, including Ndimbati, and apprehended two suspects in the Rwandan genocide in the past three years.

Prosecutors for the United Nations concluded in a statement that Ndimbati passed away in Rwanda in 1997.

“While the exact circumstances of his death have not been determined owing to the confusion and absence of order at the time, the evidence gathered by the office of the prosecutor demonstrates that Ndimbati did not leave the Gatore area, and that he was never seen or heard from again,” the statement continued.

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Ndimbati was a public officer in Rwanda in 1994 who faced several genocide accusations after it was alleged that he personally planned and oversaw the murder of thousands of Tutsis.

Hutu extremists, aided by the Rwandan army and the Interahamwe militia, massacred over 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus in 100 days in 1994.

A new court with offices in The Hague, Netherlands, and Arusha, Tanzania, has replaced the earlier U.N. tribunals for war crimes in Rwanda and Yugoslavia.

There are currently just two unresolved suspects for the Rwandan tribunal and no more fugitives from the Yugoslavia tribunal.

Reuters