{"id":51536,"date":"2024-10-01T11:52:56","date_gmt":"2024-10-01T11:52:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/dr-rwamucyo-eugene-stands-trial-in-france-for-genocide-charges\/"},"modified":"2024-10-01T11:21:50","modified_gmt":"2024-10-01T11:21:50","slug":"dr-rwamucyo-eugene-stands-trial-in-france-for-genocide-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/dr-rwamucyo-eugene-stands-trial-in-france-for-genocide-charges\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Rwamucyo Eug\u00e8ne stands trial in France for Genocide charges"},"content":{"rendered":"

Expected to conclude on October 29, 2024, approximately 60 witnesses are expected to testify during the trial.<\/p>\n

Rwamucyo, 63, previously headed the Public Health Department at the National University of Rwanda (UNR) and worked as a doctor in Lille before relocating to Maubeuge, France. He also practised medicine in Belgium.<\/p>\n

Rwandan prosecution accuses Rwamucyo of forming death squads, inciting people to commit genocide, providing weapons for the killings, and taking Tutsi women and girls hostage.<\/p>\n

In September 2009, a Gacaca court sentenced him to life imprisonment in absentia after determining that his crimes were connected to the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi.<\/p>\n

French prosecutors have charged Rwamucyo with genocide, complicity in genocide, involvement in planning genocide, crimes against humanity, and conspiracy to commit genocide.<\/p>\n

Emmanuel Daoud, a lawyer representing the human rights organizations LDH and FIDH, stated that Rwamucyo committed these crimes as he openly supported the government that planned the genocide.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was openly anti-Tutsi and publicly expressed his support for the genocidal government,\u201d Daoud said.<\/p>\n

However, Dr. Rwamucyo\u2019s lawyer, Philippe Meilhac, has maintained that his client is innocent of the charges.<\/p>\n

Rwamucyo was arrested by Interpol in May 2010 but was released on bail after four months.<\/p>\n

The Court of Appeal in Versailles ruled that he would stand trial in France due to his French citizenship.<\/p>\n

If found guilty, he could face life imprisonment.<\/p>\n

Rwamucyo\u2019s trial is the eighth in France related to the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda, which claimed the lives of more than one million people.<\/p>\n

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Rwandan doctor Eug\u00e8ne Rwamucyo began his trial on Tuesday, October 1, 2024, at the Paris Assize Court in France, for his involvement in the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":131,"featured_media":2000075439,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-51536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":{"id":2000075439,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/files-france-rwanda-genocide-trial-154256.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/files-france-rwanda-genocide-trial-154256.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/files-france-rwanda-genocide-trial-154256.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/files-france-rwanda-genocide-trial-154256.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/files-france-rwanda-genocide-trial-154256.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/files-france-rwanda-genocide-trial-154256.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/131"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51536\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000075439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51536"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=51536"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=51536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}