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    ICTR transfer - Laurent Bucyibaruta

    Issues
    Achievements and Challenges of Sexual Violence Prosecution
    Country
    Rwanda, France
    Keywords
    Interahamwe Investigation Rape, Public Roadblocks

    Reference link
    http://www.unmict.org/en/cases/mict-13-44
    Type of mechanism
    Domestic court
    Name of accused
    Laurent Bucyibaruta
    Charges
    Bucyibaruta was charged with (in the indictment of 16 June 2005): - Rape as a crime against humanity under Article 6(1) (planning, instigating, ordering, committing or otherwise aiding and abetting and JCE) for: (i) the setting up of roadblocks where, where Tutsi girls and women were repeatedly raped by soldiers, Interahamwe and armed civilians, including at Kabeza Trading Centre and the entrance to the Murambi Technical School; (ii) the attack on Ecole des Filles de Kibeho by Gendarmes, Interahamwe and Hutu civilians and whereby many Tutsi girls were raped. In addition, under Article 6(3) (command responsibility) for rapes that were committed by his subordinates in and around Murambi, Munyinya, Nzega, Uwabahima and Rwigoma (including rapes in front of the women’s children and one rape in which the perpetrator said that the woman had earlier refused to marry a Hutu).
    Status
    2778
    Case number
    MICT-13-44

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