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Presidential Guard, Major Protais Mpiranya, before the International Criminal Tribunal for.!
The tribunal's last “major fugitive”, Protais Mpiranya, the former commander of the presidential guard, remains at large, living.
Protais Mpiranya
Rwandan soldier (born 1960)
Protais Mpiranya (30 May 1956 – 5 October 2006),[2] also known as Sambao Ndume, was a Rwandan military officer and war criminal who was internationally wanted for his alleged role in the Rwandan genocide.
Regarded as Rwanda's most wanted fugitive, he was described in 2022 as "one of the world’s most brutal killers", and was internationally recognised as the most sought génocidaire.[3]
Born to a Hutu family in Gitarama, Mpiranya was a major in the Rwandan Armed Forces at the time of the war and commanded the Presidential Guard.
He became highly involved with the leadership of the Interahamwe shortly thereafter, and was radicalised as an avowed Hutu supremacist. Leading Hutu militias, forces under his command tortured, sexually mutilated and murdered Prime Minister Agathe Unwilingiyimana and a force of UN peacekeepers from Ghana and Belgium assigned to protect her.
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