2 key Rwanda genocide fugitives dead, investigators focus on four others
This undated handout combination of pictures released by The United Nations - International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (MICT) shows Protais Mpiranya who commanded the guard of Rwanda's former president Juvenal Habyarimana. PHOTOS | MICT | AFP
Fugitive Protais Mpiranya died in Zimbabwe in 2006, while Pheneas Munyarugarama succumbed in DR Congo in 2002, UN prosecutors investigating their cases have said.
The two were accused of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity in relation to the roles they played in the mass murder of the Tutsi minority by the Hutus.
During the genocide, Mpiranya was head of the presidential guard and was accused of ordering the murder of the then Prime Minister Agathe Uwilingiyimana.
The 20-year hunt for two masterminds of the 1994 Rwandan genocide has ended at graveyards in Zimbabwe and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Fugitive Protais Mpiranya died in Zimbabwe in 2006, while Pheneas Munyarugarama succumbed in DR Congo in 2002, UN prosecutors investigating their cases have said.
