Fulgence Kayishema

One of last four Rwanda genocide fugitives arrested in South Africa

Fulgence Kayishema, one of four remaining fugitives sought for their role in the 1994 Rwanda genocide, has been arrested in South Africa, United Nations investigators said on…

Julie Capelle

4 min read

A woman looks at the wall of the names of people killed in the Rwanda genocide. Photo: Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP/Getty Images

AUGUSTINUS MARIA KOUWENHOVEN

28 FEB 2022

South Africa’s legacy of sheltering war criminals can no longer be ignored

Politics have come in the way of South Africa upholding its commitment to international criminal justice as the ANC reconsiders its 2016 threat to leave the international…

Lizeka Tandwa

8 min read

Rwanda’s former army chief Faustin Kayumba Nyamwasa looks on at a court in Johannesburg on July 10, 2012. Ex-Rwandan army general is in court to testify in the trial of men charged with attempting to kill him outside his Johannesburg home in 2010. Nyamwasa told a South African court on June 21, 2012 that he was shot two years ago for defying President Paul Kagame, as he testified in the trial of six men. “The reasons why I would think anyone would want me dead is that I have over the years defied the leadership, in particular President Kagame, on things that needed change,” Faustin Kayumba Nyamwasa told a Johannesburg court. AFP PHOTO / STEPHANE DE SAKUTIN (Photo credit should read STEPHANE DE SAKUTIN/AFP/GettyImages)

AL BASHIR

12 NOV 2021

South Africa: A safe haven for perpetrators of international crimes?

Examples from the past 10 years illustrate a growing trend to avoid or slow down extradition proceedings to other countries or transfers to international entities

Atilla Kisla

6 min read