Augustin Ngirabatware

Who is Augustin Ngirabatware?

Augustin Ngirabatware is a Rwandan politician who participated in the Rwandan Genocide and has been convicted by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda.

Ngirabatware was born in 1957. He is an ethnic Hutu from Gisenyi commune.

At the time of the genocide, Ngirabatware was serving Rwandan's Minister of Planning in the government of Juvénal Habyarimana, and was a member of the Gisenyi provincial committee for the MRND party.

Ngirabatware was arrested in Frankfurt am Main, Germany on 17 September 2007 and transferred to the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda in October 2008.

On 20 December 2012, he is found guilty of genocide, direct and public incitement to commit genocide and rape as a crime against humanity and sentenced to 35 years in jail.