Between April and June 1994, one million Tutsis were exterminated in Rwanda. Some of their killers now live in France, Belgium and other European countries, where they have formed new networks. However, only a handful of them are being prosecuted or investigated. African Facts aims to contribute to the fight against impunity and oblivion. You can find all our articles on the subject here.
The 6 April 1994 attack
On the evening of 6 April 1994, the aircraft carrying Rwanda’s dictator was shot down over Kigali by two missiles fired from an army camp. The head of state was killed alongside his Burundian counterpart. The attack marked the opening move of a coup d’état. That night, the last genocide of the twentieth century began. One million people would be killed over the following hundred days during the genocide of the Tutsi in Rwanda. African Facts continues to investigate this event.
At the heart of the crime scene tampering on April 6, 1994, and a French mercenary operation during the Tutsi genocide: Edouard Kanyamikenke lives in France
This former Rwandan officer, who had undergone three years of training with the French special forces, was living discreetly near Troyes. He was the first to arrive at the site of the Rwandan president’s plane crash on 6 April 1994, along with three French soldiers. Amidst the genocide, his unit participated in a dubious operation overseen by a notorious French covert operative.
April 6, 1994 attack in Rwanda: Aloys Ntiwiragabo’s role in the long poisoning of Justice
Colonel Aloys Ntiwiragabo was found in 2020 near Orléans in France after evading international justice for 26 years. He is the main architect of the denial of the Tutsi genocide. He was particularly involved in manipulating the French justice system in relation to the attack on 6 April 1994. Episode two.
Aloys Ntiwiragabo, the omnipresent spymaster in the plot of 6 April 1994
Colonel Aloys Ntiwiragabo was found near Orléans in 2020, having evaded international justice for 26 years. He was not in Rwanda when the president’s plane was shot down on 6 April 1994. However, he and his subordinates were involved in every aspect of the plot. First episode.
The Akazu, Rwanda’s former ruling inner circle
Until 1994, a business-oriented power circle known as the Akazu, or “Network Zero”, organised around the presidential family, concentrated all levers of power. Its members are suspected of having conceived, planned and overseen the genocide of the Tutsi. African Facts investigates their role before, during and after the genocide.
In exile, former Rwandan presidential family members remains more influential than they would like to appear
While the mayor and bishop of Orléans refused to bury Protais Zigiranyirazo, who is suspected of masterminding the wheeler-dealer circle that promoted the genocide of the Tutsi in Rwandan, and while two investigating judges are attempting to clear former first lady Agathe Kanziga, who is also suspected of belonging to this circle, African Facts investigated the survival of this network.
Former Rwandan presidential family’s shadow over Congolese conflict
While the role and importance of Rwandan génocidaires and their ideas in the conflict in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo are increasingly being relativised and downplayed, African Facts reveals the links between Rwanda’s former presidential family and various armed actors, including the FDLR, the FLN, and a Congolese general who coordinates the Wazalendo militias.
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