Facts
Ernest Gakwaya and Emmanuel Nkunduwimye were allegedly members of the Interahamwe militia, which was heavily implicated in the 1994 genocide. They allegedly participated in the 1994 genocide in Rwanda by murdering and raping Tutsis and moderate Hutus.
Procedure
Gakwaya and Nkunduwimye were arrested in March 2011 in Brussels.
On 9 October 2019, the Criminal Court decided to sever the cases against Gakwaya and Nkunduwimye from the case against another accused, Fabien Neretsé, considering that there was no connection between the offenses.
Ernest Gakwaya had been expected to participate in the same trial as Emmanuel Nkunduwimye, which began on 8 April 2024. However, having previously been convicted and detained in Burundi for falsifying papers, he was not released and transferred to Belgium in time for the beginning of the trial. Since then, Gakwaya has been transferred to Belgium. A new date has not yet been set for his trial.