Hassan Ngeze

Hassan Ngeze Full Name: Hassan Ngeze Origin: Gisenyi Prefecture, Rwanda Occupation: Senior editor of Kangura Leader of the CDR Correspondent for Radio Télévision Libre des Mille Collines Hobby: Spreading anti-Tutsi propaganda Goals: Eliminate Tutsis in Gisenyi Prefecture (failed) Crimes: War crimes Genocide Crimes against humanity Propaganda Rape Torture Mass murder Misogyny Xenophobia Torture Type of Villain: War Criminal

Hassan Ngeze (25 December 1957) is a Rwandan journalist best known for spreading anti-Tutsi propaganda and Hutu superiority through his newspaper, Kangura, which he founded in 1990. Ngeze was a founding member and leadership figure in the Coalition for the Defence of the Republic (CDR), a Rwandan Hutu Power political party that is known for helping to incite the Rwandan Genocide.

Biography

Ngeze was born in Rubavu commune, Gisenyi prefecture, in Rwanda. He is a Muslim, of Hutu ethnicity. In addition to working as a journalist in 1978, Ngeze allegedly also earned money as a bus driver.

Ngeze was the Editor-in-Chief of the bimonthly Kangura magazine, which was initially intended as a counterweight to the popular anti-government newspaper Kanguka, and was financed by high-level members in the ruling MRND party of Hutu dictator Juvénal Habyarimana. Ngeze and his magazine had extensive links to the Akazu, the network of officials surrounding the President and his wife Agathe Habyarimana; this group included supporters of Hutu Power and the architects of the Rwandan genocide.

Ngeze is best known for publishing the "Hutu Ten Commandments" in the December edition of Kangura in 1990, which were essential in creating and spreading the anti-Tutsi feeling among Rwandan Hutus that led to the genocide. Ngeze himself was an active participant in the genocide once it got underway, creating death lists for the Interahamwe and Impuzamugambi, as well as personally overseeing and participating in acts of torture, rape, and mass murder his native Gisenyi Prefecture.

Ngeze is currently serving a 35-year prison sentence in Mali for his role in the genocide, after being convicted by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) in 2003. He was originally given a life sentence, but this was reduced via an appeal in 2007.