Laurent Bucyibaruta is the highest-ranking Rwandan to face trial in France over the country's 1994 massacres in which an estimated 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus died in 100 days of mass killings.
An attendee reacts during the 28th local commemoration of the genocide against the Tutsi at Murambi genocide memorial in Nyamagabe, southern Rwanda on 21 April 2022. Laurent Bucyibaruta went on trial in France on 9 May 2022 and is accused of genocide, complicity in genocide and complicity in crimes against humanity.A French court on Tuesday jailed a former senior Rwandan official for 20 years after finding him guilty of complicity in the African nation's genocide.
The court also examined Bucyibaruta's responsibility in the massacre of 90 Tutsi pupils at the Marie Merci school in Kibeho on 7 May, 1994 and in the execution of Tutsi prisoners in Gikongoro prison. He added: "Did I lack courage? Could I have saved them? Those questions, those regrets even, have been haunting me for over 28 years."Bucyibaruta, who has been in France since 1997, has myriad health problems and was allowed to remain under house arrest during trial to receive treatments.France has long been under pressure from activists to act against suspected Rwandan perpetrators who took refuge on French soil afterwards.
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