Augustin Ngirabatware [SEP] occupation
Augustin Ngirabatware
Augustin Ngirabatware (born 12 January 1957) 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
had nothing to do with the massacres at the Gikomero Parish and is seeking a review of his conviction on the grounds of actual innocence.
In 2016, Robinson took on the case of another wrongfully convicted defendant from the ICTR. He represented former Rwanda Minister of Planning Augustin Ngirabatware, who contended that he had nothing to do with the distribution of weapons and incitement of the population in the town of Gisenyi. In December, 2017, Robinson withdrew from representing Ngirabatware.
In 2018, Robinson began representing Major Francois-Xavier