‘Zim-based’ Rwanda genocide suspect hearing begins

The special deposition hearings in the case of Rwandan genocide suspect Protais Mpiranya, believed to be hiding in Zimbabwe, began on Wednesday at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) in Arusha, Tanzania, amid suggestions the suspect could be long dead.

According to reports from a Francophone publishing company, Editions Sources du Nil, Mpiranya died on October 5, 2006.

His memoirs, Rwanda, the lost paradise: Last secrets of former commander of J Habyarimana’s Presidential Guard, were released “posthumously” in October 2010, the publisher claims.

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