Lt Col Muvunyi, Rwandan Genocide Sponsor Found Dead In Shower Room

By Frank Kamuntu

A former lieutenant colonel convicted of inciting genocide in Rwanda in 1994 has died in Niger after an appeal for medical assistance in Britain went unanswered, his lawyer said on Saturday.

Tharcisse Muvunyi was in the Rwandan army when ruling Hutu majority extremists killed more than 800,000 minority Tutsis and Hutu moderates in 100 days.

He was arrested in the United Kingdom, sentenced to 15 years in prison in 2010 and freed two years later after time served.

“Yesterday afternoon Muvunyi was found dead in the shower room by one of his housemates,” Muvunyi’s lawyer Abbe Jolles said.

Muvunyi lived in a safe house in Tanzania on release in 2012 and moved to Niger in 2021 in a house with seven others who had been tried for their roles in the genocide.

He had been sick for weeks. On May 6, he was found unconscious at home and taken to hospital for brain scans that were never completed. He was discharged on May 10.

Six days later, Jolles filed a request with the United Nations for Muvunyi’s medical evacuation to the UK but didn’t get any feedback.

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