Case No. ICTR-96-4-T - International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda

younger brothers. He stated that he could not stay in the house because he was afraid thatthe Accused would look for him there. Instead, he hid in an eucalyptus bush on the sideof a hill approximately eighty metres from the house.228. Karangwa testified that he saw two motor vehicles, a blue Toyota Hiace minibus anda red Toyota Hilux approach the house. These vehicles stopped approximately twentyfive metres away from the house. This was the same minibus that was taken away fromthe Interahamwe and the Accused was using it at that time. Many people alighted fromthe vehicles and walked towards Laurent Kamondo's house. The witness recognised someof these people as the bourgmestre of Musambira, the Accused, a police officer namedEmanuel Mushumba from the Taba commune, Mutiji Masivere, Winima Boniface andMunir Yarangaclaude who was the secretary of the MDR party in the commune of Taba(phonetic spelling). The Accused was wearing a military jacket and he had a gun in hishand.229. Karangwa testified that he heard shouts and whistles as this group of peopleapproached Laurent Kamondo's house. He saw people running and, thereafter, he saw hisyounger brothers in the court yard with these people. The witness stated that it was thenthat he realised that his brothers were in Musambira. The witness continued to hearshouts from these people and then he heard the Accused say that his brothers must beshot. The witness heard gun shots and concluded that his brothers were killed and that theAccused had fired the gun. When asked by the Prosecutor whether he saw the gun thatwas used to kill his brothers, the witness replied that he saw the Accused carrying a gunwhen he arrived and that he heard the shots.230. Karangwa testified that after the killing of his brothers, he fled to Kabgayi, and onarrival at the cathedral, the witness stated that he saw the Accused in a pick up' drive upto the cathedral. The Accused was in the company of two police officers from the Tabacommune named Emanuel Mushumba ( phonetic spelling) and Ooli Musakarani(phonetic spelling) and a group of people. The witness said that he saw the Accused andthese other people alight from the vehicle and look around the courtyard of the cathedralbut they did not go inside. They then got back into the motor vehicle and left. Thewitness was informed by Witness V that the Accused was making enquiries about hiswhereabouts and he was advised to hide. The witness stayed in the seminary until the endof the war.231. Karangwa testified that he was not able to leave the seminary but that he heard frommany people that the Accused was outside the seminary on many occasions. The Accusedwas able to come into the compound of the seminary from 30 May 1994. The witnessrecalled that he remembered that day clearly, because it was on that day that the Accusedcame to take him away, and he was saved by someone.232. Karangwa testified that he stayed in Kabgayi from 21 April 1994 to 2 June 1994. Atthe beginning of 1995 the witness went to work as IPJ in the public prosecutor's office inGitarama and on 3 January 1996 became the bourgmestre of Taba. The witness said that