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Callixte Kalimanzira, Rwanda's acting interior minister during the 1994 genocide , has surrendered to the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda , the court announced Tuesday. According to the tribunal, Kalimanzira is "charged with genocide, in...

The Rwandan government wants to send a Catholic priest back to his home of Belgium to face trial on genocide charges and asked its highest court on Tuesday for permission to do so. Catholic missionary Guy Theunis is accused...

JURIST Special Guest Columnist Greg Kehoe, US Department of Justice Regime Crimes Liaison to the Iraqi Special Tribunal in Baghdad from March 2004 until March 2005, says that while the current Ad Dujayl case against Saddam Hussein is not about...

Former Rwandan president Pasteur Bizimungu has asked that country's high court to overturn his 15-year criminal sentence for inciting violence, embezzlement, and associating with criminals. On appeal, Bizimungu argues he was tried on charges different...

Former Rwandan army officer Col. Theoneste Bagosora , accused of being the "mastermind" behind the country's 1994 genocide , took the witness stand Monday at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) and denied a role...

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police on Wednesday arrested and charged a Rwandan man living in Toronto with war crimes and crimes against humanity in connection with the 1994 genocide in Rwanda . Desire Munyaneza, 39,...

The UN High Commissioner for Refugees has called on the government of Burundi to recognize more than 3,000 Rwandan refugees as asylum seekers, allowing them to stay in the country. Since March, nearly 8,000 Rwandans,...

The Supreme Iraqi Criminal Tribunal (formerly known as the Iraqi Special Tribunal ), the court established to try Saddam Hussein and other former Iraqi officials, could violate international standards for fair trials, according to a...

The Belgian Foreign Ministry said Tuesday that Rwanda has agreed to hand over Guy Theunis, a Belgian Catholic priest accused of helping incite the 1994 Rwandan genocide , to the Belgian government. Last...

Joseph Serugendo, the former technical director of a Rwandan radio station that promoted the 1994 Rwandan genocide , pleaded not guilty Friday to five counts of genocide and crimes against humanity at the UN-backed International Criminal...