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As of 7 April 1994, killings of the civilian Tutsi population, which was preceded on many occasions by rape, sexual violence and other crimes of a sexual nature, were carried out by civilians and soldiers under orders from Mpiranya as were the murders of numerous political opponents,
In July 1994, faced with the advance of the troops of the FPR (Rwandan Patriotic Front, an opposition movement composed essentially of Tutsi refugees and led by Paul Kigame), Mpiranya fled Rwanda most probably towards the Democratic Republic of Congo. As of today’s date, he has still not been arrested.
LEGAL PROCEDURE
Protais Mpiranya fled Rwanda in July 1994. As of today’s date, he has still not yet been arrested.
On 11 June 2002, the United States conducted a major media campaign in Kenya aimed at the capture of several men wanted by the ICTR one of which being Mpiranya. Although the American federal programme “Rewards for Justice” had already been used in an attempt to find persons indicted by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, this was the first time it had been used against persons under accusation by the ICTR. A reward of up to $ 5’000’000 was put on offer for information leading to the arrest of Mpiranya.
Based on an amended bill of indictment dated 25 September 2002, Mpiranya was indicted on 11 counts. He was accused of, “conspiracy to commit genocide”, of “genocide” or in the alternative of “complicity in genocide”. He was also accused of “murder as a crime against humanity”, of “murder as a crime against humanity” for the assassination of the 11 Belgian soldiers of the UNIMAR of “extermination as a crime against humanity”, of “rape as a crime against humanity”, of “persecution on political, racial or religious grounds as a crime against humanity” and of “other inhumane acts as a crime against humanity” as well as various war crimes.
Mipiranya was originally indicted together with four other persons (Augustin Bizimungu, Augustin Ndindiliyimana, Innocent Sagahutu and François-Xavier Nzuwonemeye.
On 20 August 2004, due to the fact that he had still not been arrested, the Second Trial Chamber of the ICTR, on the request of the Chief prosecutor, ordered the separation of the trial concerning Mpiranya from that of the four other defendants.
In June 2012, special deposition hearings were conducted in order to preserve evidence for future use when Mpiranya would be arrested.
On 1 August 2012, the case of Mpiranya was transferred to the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (IRM) created by the UN in December 2010 to assume some functions of the ICTR and ICTY after the end of their mandate including tracking, arresting and judging the 9 fugitives still wanted by the ICTR.