THE PROSECUTOR V. AUGUSTIN DINDILIYIMANA, AUGUSTIN BIZIMUNGU, FRANÇOIS-XAVIER NZUWONEMEYE AND INNOCENT SAGAHUTU
The Chamber found that the Prosecution failed to prove a conspiracy to commit genocide, but proved various individual and superior-responsibility crimes for some Accused on certain incidents, while acquitting them on other allegations; convictions were entered only where the evidence established the charged conduct and, for war crimes, the required nexus to the armed conflict. The Chamber held that Bizimungu’s liability for extermination was limited to the Josephite Brothers compound because the proof concerning the préfecture office and EER in Butare did not reach the scale required for exte…
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- Genocide
- Crimes against humanity
- War crimes
- Superior responsibility
- Rape
- Murder