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.
In 2023, the trial’s opening date was set to 8 April 2024. Ernest Gakwaya was due to be released in February in Burundi, where he was serving time for falsifying documents. But he has not yet been transferred to Belgium. No date has yet been set for his trial.