Robert Kajuga (Interahamwe)

Jerry Robert Kajuga (1960[1]–before 2015) was the national president and leader of the MRND-affiliated extremist militia, the Interahamwe,[2] which was largely responsible for perpetrating the Rwandan genocide in 1994. Ironically, he was from a partially Tutsi (his mother was Hutu and his father was Tutsi[3]) family whose father had acquired Hutu identity papers for his family.[4] In order to avoid any kind of suspicion about their family being Tutsi, Robert Kajuga kept his brother hidden at the Hôtel des Mille Collines in Kigali. Kajuga fled Rwanda in 1996, taking refuge in nearby Congo for two and a half years, before being arrested by UN Security forces and standing trial in Kigali and being sentenced to life imprisonment. Kajuga later died in prison sometime before 2015[5] in Kinshasa.[6]

References
  1. Ph.D, Alexis Herr (2018). Rwandan Genocide: The Essential Reference Guide. ABC-CLIO. p. 98. ISBN 9781440855610.
  2. Dallaire, Roméo (2004), Shake hands with the devil : the failure of humanity in Rwanda (1st ed.), Toronto: Vintage Canada, p. 346
  3. ""Leave None to Tell the Story": Genocide in Rwanda". Human Rights Watch. 1999. The militia was directed by a national committee that included Jerry Robert Kajuga, president (himself the son of a Tutsi father and Hutu mother),
  4. Vasagar, Jeevan (16 February 2005). "The hotel that saved hundreds from genocide". The Guardian. London, UK.
  5. Bachmann, Klaus; Fatić, Aleksandar (2015). The UN International Criminal Tribunals: Transition Without Justice?. Routledge. p. 131. ISBN 9781317631361.
  6. "23.03.07 - ICTR/WEEKLY SUMMARY - ICTR CLEARS A LAWYER ACCUSED OF BRIBING A WITNESS". www.justiceinfo.net. Retrieved 2020-01-12. Robert Kajuga died some time after in Kinshasa following his illness.


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