Urubanza rwa Emmanuel Nkunduwimye batazira Bomboko, umunyarwanda w’imyaka 65, yagirizwa ivyaha vya jenoside yo mu 1994, rwabandanije ku munsi ugira icenda kuva rutanguye i Buruseli mu Bubiligi.
A Witness in a trial of prosecution against Emmanuel Nkunduwimye alias Bomboko has told the Brussels Court of Assizes that the suspect was indistinguishable from Robert Kajuga and George Rutanganda respectively President and vice president of Interahamwe militia.
The militia is responsible for the killings of more than one million Tutsi during the 1994 Genocide against Tutsi.
Nkunduwimye is accused of Genocide crimes and war crimes committed in Nyarugenge, especially near and around AMGAR, a garage he allegedly co-owned with George Rutaganda.
A witness who was 18 year old during the Genocide, told the court that on April 8, Interahamwe stormed her family’s house, and ordered everyone to go out.
As they were trying to escape, their father was shot dead, and then her mother.
A neighbor who was a trader at that time saw them and was caught by compassion; he took them and dispatched them into several families so that they are not discovered and decimated.
In this process, the witness said, the family that was hosting us went to live with interahamwe-Kajuga, leaving us with their own child.
“Later on, we heard news that Kajuga would come to take us to Hotel Milles Collines where a number of Tutsi were hiding. Indeed, the following night, escorted by Interahamwe, he came, but instead of taking us to the hotel, he hid us in a different place,” the witness said.
“Instead of taking us at Milles Collines Hotel, Kajuga escorted us to a place called Photo Musa and hid us in a small cell,” the witness said.
Photo Musa was a business including photo studio in Kigali Business district. At this place, the witness and her siblings were joined by several other people brought on the order of Kajuga who was able to kill whoever he wanted, or save anyone he wanted.
Some militia Interahamwe used to come to watch on them, and those include Kajuga, Leopold, one Petit and the suspect himself.
She once heard something which she will never forget about Nkunduwimye, the suspect.
“That evening, a lady called on phone, her name was Florence. She pleaded Kajuga to come and save her the following morning, but in that same morning, Nkunduwimye came to us rejoicing that Florence’s family was exterminated,” said the witness.