Former Rwanda Official Surrenders to Tribunal

November 8 – The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda announced today that Callixte Kalimanzira, former Acting Minister of the Interior of Rwanda during the 1994 genocide, surrendered to Tanzanian authorities. According to the ICTR, Kalimanzira was transferred to the UN Detention Facility in Arusha, Tanzania. He has been charged with genocide, in the alternative complicity in genocide, and with direct and public incitement to commit genocide.

The ICTR reports that Kalimanzira is alleged to have coordinated efforts to commence the killings of Tutsis in Butare prefecture. He is specifically charged with giving inflammatory speeches that called for the elimination of all Tutsis, including women, children and the elderly; with distributing weapons to be used in the massacres of Tutsis; with supervising the killings of thousands of Tutsis at their places of refuge; and with personally beating some Tutsis to death.

Last updated November 8, 2005

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