Ignace Murwanashyaka

[1][2] Murwanashyaka was born in Butare and has studied economic sciences in West Germany, including a doctor's degree, and lived there since 1989, on asylum since 2000.

In November 2005 he was blacklisted by the United Nations for violating an arms embargo aimed at promoting peace in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and subjected to a travel bans and assets freeze.

[4][5] On 26 May 2006 preliminary investigation were opened against him for "Initial suspicion of involvement in crimes against humanity in the Democratic Republic of Congo", but the prosecution has since been abandoned.

[6] Rwanda indicated it would seek his extradition for alleged crimes committed during the Rwandan genocide[7] and has issued an arrest warrant.

[14] Until his death, he spent nine and a half years in German pre-trial detention without interruption, longer than any other accused in Germany before.