These men are not nobodies. Some of them have left their names, written in blood, in the history of the genocide perpetrated against the Tutsis between April and July 1994. While some were acquitted by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), others, convicted for their participation in the genocide have since served their sentences.
In an order dated 27 December, which we were able to consult, Niger’s Minister of the Interior and Decentralization, Hamadou Adamou Souley, ordered their expulsion from the national territory within seven days of notification. The people targeted by this text are senior officials, civilian or military, of the regime that oversaw the genocide against the Tutsis.
Protais Zigiranyirazo, brother of Agathe Habyarimana – the widow of the president assassinated on 6 April 1994 – was sentenced by the ICTR to 20 years in prison in 2008 before being
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