Georges Ruggiu
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Georges Henri Yvon Joseph Ruggiu (born 12 October 1957 in Verviers, Belgium) is a Belgian journalist and broadcaster, who worked in Rwanda for a radio station which promoted the Rwandan Genocide.
From January to July 1994, prior to and during the genocide, Ruggiu worked in Kigali, Rwanda as a journalist and producer for Radio Télévision Libre des Mille Collines (RTLM). RTLM was one of the chief sources of extremist Hutu propaganda, broadcasting 24 hours a day and openly exhorting its audience to kill Tutsis and "disloyal" Hutus. Ruggiu personally wrote and broadcast content of this nature.
On 23 July 1997, Ruggiu was arrested in Mombasa, Kenya at the request of the prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, and moved to the site of the tribunal in Arusha, Tanzania.
On 1 June 2000, Ruggiu was sentenced to 12 years of prison by the ICTR.
