Inside the trial in Brussels of Belgian State’s responsibility in ETO Kicukiro massacres in 1994

Quite an exceptional trial is currently taking place before the Court of Appeal in Brussels, almost 24 years after the facts. It is a civil appeal against the Belgian State and two of its military officers (then Col Marchal – deputy to Gen Romeo Dallaire, the commander of the UN Mission in Rwanda in 1994 – and the highest ranked Belgian officer in charge, and Col Dewez, who was the commander of Kibat, the Kigali Battalion) that begun on March 2, 2018.
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