It has been sixteen years since one of the most wanted fugitives allegedly involved in the genocide actually died.

For more than twenty years, justice considered him a run. On Thursday, May 12, the UN reported that Protoys Embranya, a fugitive from Rwanda who was allegedly involved in the 1994 genocide, had then ordered the most powerful presidential guard to actually die sixteen years ago. Prosecutors announced.

This was announced by the trial committee in The Hague“Following a rigorous and intensive investigation, the Attorney General’s Office was able to determine that Embrania died on October 5, 2006 in Harare, Zimbabwe.”.

Hutu Major Embrania, who has been charged with genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes, is still considered the most important of the six men in hiding and has been indicted by the former International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. His predecessor on the list, Felician Kapuka, who is regularly cited as the financier of the genocide, was arrested in France in May 2020 and handed over to the International Court of Justice.

In the early hours of the genocide that killed 800,000 people, Protestant Embrania, along with others, was accused of killing on April 7, 1994, mainly Tutsis – moderate Hutu Prime Minister Agathe Uvilingimana and ten Belgians. The blue helmets and many leading political figures responsible for its protection.

“His presence in Zimbabwe, and then his death, was deliberately obscured by the concerted efforts of his family and associates, until now.”Can you read the UN lawyers’ press release on Thursday?