Names of three Rwandan nationals arrested earlier last week in Belgium for their alleged roles in the genocide against the Tutsis in 1994 were made public by judicial authorities in Brussels on Sunday.
The decision to reveal their identities was reached after considering whether the disclosure is in the public’s best interest, it said.
The three alleged fugitives arrested separately in Belgium this week were indicted for genocide and extermination according to Rwanda’s National Public Prosecution Authority (NPPA).
The three are Pierre Basabose, Séraphin Twahirwa and Christophe Ndangali.
Judicial reports indicate that Basabose was indicted in June 2015 for the crimes of genocide and extermination.
He is a former soldier of the defeated Rwandan armed forces (ex-FAR) who had quit the military to venture into business.
He owned a foreign exchange bureau in Kigali.
He is, according to prosecution, known to have distributed guns and money to Interahamwe militia so they kill the Tutsi in the suburbs of Gatenga and Gikondo in Kigali.
Twahirwa on the other hand worked in the Ministry of public works (Minitrape), which is the current infrastructure ministry.
He was indicted in June 2014, according to information from prosecution, accused of genocide, conspiracy and extermination.
He formed an Interahamwe millitia group that called itself Operation CDR Suicide Kimya, which comprised 600 murderers that killed the Tutsi in Karambo/Gatenga and in Gikondo, a suburb of Kigali city.
The prosecution also says he worked in the Interahamwe headquarters.
Ngangali worked in the Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education (Mineprisec).
He was indicted in November 2012 for genocide, conspiracy and extermination.
According to Prosecution, he was in charge of patrolling and inspecting roadblocks in Kacyiru and Giticyinyoni areas of Kigali.
Last December, a Belgian court sentenced genocide suspect Fabien Neretse, 71, to 25 years in jail after being found guilty of genocide, murder, war crimes and crimes against humanity.
This was not the first genocide trial in Belgium, but it was the first time that criminal prosecution and conviction was based on a law punishing genocide, introduced there in 2017.
The trial of Neretse was the fifth held in Brussels connected to the 1994 genocide.
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