Laurent Bucyibaruta

Portrait of Laurent Bucyibaruta displayed in a museum in Rwanda.

Rwanda

Genocide in Rwanda : Bucyibaruta guilty by complicity

13 July 2022 by AFP

Former Rwandan prefect Laurent Bucyibaruta was sentenced on July 12 by a Paris court to 20 years in prison for complicity in genocide. The former civil servant was acquitted as a main perpetrator of the 1994 genocide of the Tutsis [...]

Drawing of Laurent Bucyibaruta sitting in the courtroom of his trial in Paris. In the background, a magistrate.

Rwanda

Rwanda: "Bucyibaruta did what he could"

4 July 2022 by Franck Petit

The genocide trial of former Rwandan prefect Laurent Bucyibaruta enters its final phase this week in Paris. Among the 115 witnesses, experts and civil parties called to testify, some defence witnesses portray a “careful” prefect w [...]

Portrait of Laurent Bucyibaruta

Rwanda

Rwandan ex-prefect Bucyibaruta on trial for genocide in Paris

9 May 2022 by Emmanuel Sehene Ruvugiro

Former Rwandan prefect Laurent Bucyibaruta, 78, goes on trial from May 9 to July 12 before the Paris Court of Assizes for alleged crimes of genocide, complicity in genocide and complicity in crimes against humanity during the Tuts [...]