Callixte Mbarushimana

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Callixte Mbarushimana is a Hutu Rwandan and former United Nations employee alleged to have directed and participated in the murder of 32 people in 1994 — including U.N. employees he was hired to protect — during the Rwandan Genocide.

Mbarushimana had been hired by the U.N. to deliver supplies to U.N. employees. However, it is alleged that not only did Mbarushimana hand over the vehicles and supplies to Rwandan militias (eg. the Interahamwe) or the military, he was then directly involved in killing people during the genocide. Amongst the U.N. employees Mbarushimana is alleged to have murdered was Florence Ngirumpatse, the director of personnel at the U.N. development office in Kigali.

Mbarushimana was dismissed from the U.N. in 2001 but in 2004 he won a lawsuit seeking compensation for his dismissal.

When war crimes investigator Tony Grieg researched the Mbarushimana case, he interviewed at least 20 people who witnessed the murders and confirmed that Mbarushimana was directly involved. However, Mbarushimana was never indicted for his crimes, possibly because he was not considered to be one of the main organisers of the killings.