Aloys Ntiwiragabo, the former head of Rwanda’s military intelligence under the country’s extremist Hutu regime, accused of being a ringleader in the 1994 genocide that is estimated to have exterminated up to one million mostly Tutsi people in the African state, continues to reside in France despite a request by Rwanda for his extradition and the rejection of his asylum application. The case of Ntiwiragabo, suspected of “crimes against humanity”, is a further demonstration of the unofficial haven that perpetrators of the Rwandan genocide have found in France. Theo Englebert reports.
Aloys Ntiwiragabo, the former colonel who headed Rwanda’s military intelligence under the country’s extremist Hutu regime, who is suspected of playing a key role in the planning and perpetration of the genocide of the minority Tutsi people in the African state in 1994, continues to reside freely in France, where his presence appears to be officially tolerated, despite a formal request by Rwanda for his extradition and the rejection on appeal last September of his request for asylum.
