Lucy Gaynor
@lucyjgaynor.bsky.social
Historian. PhD Researcher: University of Amsterdam / NIOD-Institute for War, Holocaust & Genocide Studies. Researching historical narratives in international criminal trials ( #Rwanda / #Cambodia / #ICC)
#Kayishema was an inspector of judicial police in 1994. He was based in Kivumu, a commune in Rwanda's 'Kibuye' prefecture, in the west of the country [in yellow on the left of the picture].
October 29, 2025 at 3:18 PM
#Kayishema was an inspector of judicial police in 1994. He was based in Kivumu, a commune in Rwanda's 'Kibuye' prefecture, in the west of the country [in yellow on the left of the picture].
#Rwanda
Fulgence Kayishema - arrested in #SouthAfrica in 2023 - has still not been transferred to Rwanda for trial.
Earlier this year, he formally requested that the referral of his case to 🇷🇼 be revoked for four reasons. Today, the #ICTR's 'Residual Mechanism' (IRMCT) issued a decision.
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Fulgence Kayishema - arrested in #SouthAfrica in 2023 - has still not been transferred to Rwanda for trial.
Earlier this year, he formally requested that the referral of his case to 🇷🇼 be revoked for four reasons. Today, the #ICTR's 'Residual Mechanism' (IRMCT) issued a decision.
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October 29, 2025 at 3:18 PM
#Rwanda
Fulgence Kayishema - arrested in #SouthAfrica in 2023 - has still not been transferred to Rwanda for trial.
Earlier this year, he formally requested that the referral of his case to 🇷🇼 be revoked for four reasons. Today, the #ICTR's 'Residual Mechanism' (IRMCT) issued a decision.
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Fulgence Kayishema - arrested in #SouthAfrica in 2023 - has still not been transferred to Rwanda for trial.
Earlier this year, he formally requested that the referral of his case to 🇷🇼 be revoked for four reasons. Today, the #ICTR's 'Residual Mechanism' (IRMCT) issued a decision.
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Rodrigo #Duterte's defence team have filed a notice of appeal against the decision (below) which denied their challenge to #ICC jurisdiction over the former #Philippines President
They ask judges to rule there is "no legal basis" for the proceedings & grant him "immediate and unconditional release"
They ask judges to rule there is "no legal basis" for the proceedings & grant him "immediate and unconditional release"
October 29, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Rodrigo #Duterte's defence team have filed a notice of appeal against the decision (below) which denied their challenge to #ICC jurisdiction over the former #Philippines President
They ask judges to rule there is "no legal basis" for the proceedings & grant him "immediate and unconditional release"
They ask judges to rule there is "no legal basis" for the proceedings & grant him "immediate and unconditional release"
🚨Today🚨
At 15:00 in #TheHague, the #ICJ will deliver its advisory opinion on "Obligations of #Israel... in relation to the Occupied Palestinian Territory".
This is separate from the #genocide case brought by #SouthAfrica in 2023. It was requested by the #UN General Assembly in December 2024👇
At 15:00 in #TheHague, the #ICJ will deliver its advisory opinion on "Obligations of #Israel... in relation to the Occupied Palestinian Territory".
This is separate from the #genocide case brought by #SouthAfrica in 2023. It was requested by the #UN General Assembly in December 2024👇
October 22, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Emmanuel Ndindabahizi - Minister of Finance in the interim government sworn in on 9 April 1994, which presided over the #genocide in #Rwanda - has died.
In 2004 the #ICTR found him guilty of 3 counts of genocide and crimes against humanity. He was serving his life sentence in #Benin
In 2004 the #ICTR found him guilty of 3 counts of genocide and crimes against humanity. He was serving his life sentence in #Benin
October 13, 2025 at 9:23 AM
#Duterte has been denied interim release from the #ICC
Judges note:
- Him calling his arrest a "a pure and simple kidnapping"
- Daughter's insistence he could be "broken out"
- Political contacts
They are unconvinced by his "commitment to returning", nor that would not return to the #Philippines
Judges note:
- Him calling his arrest a "a pure and simple kidnapping"
- Daughter's insistence he could be "broken out"
- Political contacts
They are unconvinced by his "commitment to returning", nor that would not return to the #Philippines
October 10, 2025 at 1:29 PM
#Duterte has been denied interim release from the #ICC
Judges note:
- Him calling his arrest a "a pure and simple kidnapping"
- Daughter's insistence he could be "broken out"
- Political contacts
They are unconvinced by his "commitment to returning", nor that would not return to the #Philippines
Judges note:
- Him calling his arrest a "a pure and simple kidnapping"
- Daughter's insistence he could be "broken out"
- Political contacts
They are unconvinced by his "commitment to returning", nor that would not return to the #Philippines
The International Court of Justice, #ICJ, will deliver an Advisory Opinion on "Obligations of #Israel in relation to the Presence & Activities of the #UN, Other International Organisations & Third States in & in relation to the Occupied Palestinian Territory" on 22 October @ 3pm.
Press Release 👇
Press Release 👇
October 9, 2025 at 9:58 AM
In 2005 the #UN Security Council referred the “Situation in #Darfur” to the #ICC.
Today, at 2pm 🇳🇱 time, after 3 years & 74 witnesses, the ICC’s only #Sudan trial will end.
Alleged #Janjaweed leader Abd-Al-Rahman will hear the judgement on his 31 charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Today, at 2pm 🇳🇱 time, after 3 years & 74 witnesses, the ICC’s only #Sudan trial will end.
Alleged #Janjaweed leader Abd-Al-Rahman will hear the judgement on his 31 charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
October 6, 2025 at 5:02 AM
In 2005 the #UN Security Council referred the “Situation in #Darfur” to the #ICC.
Today, at 2pm 🇳🇱 time, after 3 years & 74 witnesses, the ICC’s only #Sudan trial will end.
Alleged #Janjaweed leader Abd-Al-Rahman will hear the judgement on his 31 charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Today, at 2pm 🇳🇱 time, after 3 years & 74 witnesses, the ICC’s only #Sudan trial will end.
Alleged #Janjaweed leader Abd-Al-Rahman will hear the judgement on his 31 charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
En route to #TheHague for yet another #Kabuga status conference.
The #IRMCT has said a recording will be available after the session (no mention of a stream).
Recent conferences have been brief, punctuated by frustration and helplessness from all trial parties, as Kabuga remains in detention.
The #IRMCT has said a recording will be available after the session (no mention of a stream).
Recent conferences have been brief, punctuated by frustration and helplessness from all trial parties, as Kabuga remains in detention.
September 25, 2025 at 5:48 AM
This year will be the 5th in a row that I’ve watched Raoul Peck’s #documentary ‘Exterminate All the Brutes’ with students of @niodamsterdam.bsky.social’s ‘Holocaust and Genocide Studies’ program.
Every single year, “current” events echo his discussions of historical #violence
‘The past is present’
Every single year, “current” events echo his discussions of historical #violence
‘The past is present’
September 24, 2025 at 2:44 PM
This year will be the 5th in a row that I’ve watched Raoul Peck’s #documentary ‘Exterminate All the Brutes’ with students of @niodamsterdam.bsky.social’s ‘Holocaust and Genocide Studies’ program.
Every single year, “current” events echo his discussions of historical #violence
‘The past is present’
Every single year, “current” events echo his discussions of historical #violence
‘The past is present’
The prosecutor at the #ICTR’s Residual Mechanism has officially requested that Félicien #Kabuga be released to #Rwanda
Kabuga - whose trial was indefinitely suspended in August 2023 - has been in detention in #TheHague ever since.
The (alleged) “interests of justice” raise their head again.
Kabuga - whose trial was indefinitely suspended in August 2023 - has been in detention in #TheHague ever since.
The (alleged) “interests of justice” raise their head again.
September 9, 2025 at 12:08 PM
21 years after #ICC investigations began in Northern #Uganda - primarily targeting violence committed by the Lord’s Resistance Army - its leader is in the dock in #TheHague… in name only.
Out at the Court for its first ever in absentia Confirmation of Charges hearing, vs. a spectral Joseph #Kony
Out at the Court for its first ever in absentia Confirmation of Charges hearing, vs. a spectral Joseph #Kony
September 9, 2025 at 6:47 AM
A new #bookreview is out on H-Genocide: the #Genocide Studies network within Humanities Net! [@h-net-humanities.bsky.social ]
Timothy Williams reflects on Alette Smeulers's 'Perpetrators of Mass Atrocities: Terribly and Terrifyingly Normal?'
Read the review here 👇
www.h-net.org/reviews/show...
Timothy Williams reflects on Alette Smeulers's 'Perpetrators of Mass Atrocities: Terribly and Terrifyingly Normal?'
Read the review here 👇
www.h-net.org/reviews/show...
September 8, 2025 at 1:08 PM
A new #bookreview is out on H-Genocide: the #Genocide Studies network within Humanities Net! [@h-net-humanities.bsky.social ]
Timothy Williams reflects on Alette Smeulers's 'Perpetrators of Mass Atrocities: Terribly and Terrifyingly Normal?'
Read the review here 👇
www.h-net.org/reviews/show...
Timothy Williams reflects on Alette Smeulers's 'Perpetrators of Mass Atrocities: Terribly and Terrifyingly Normal?'
Read the review here 👇
www.h-net.org/reviews/show...
🚨 Confirmation of Charges for #Duterte is delayed 🚨
#ICC judges have just vacated the planned date of 23 September 2025 for the Confirmation of Charges hearing against former President of the #Philippines, Rodrigo Duterte, due in part to continued questions over his fitness to participate.
#ICC judges have just vacated the planned date of 23 September 2025 for the Confirmation of Charges hearing against former President of the #Philippines, Rodrigo Duterte, due in part to continued questions over his fitness to participate.
September 8, 2025 at 11:19 AM
🚨 Confirmation of Charges for #Duterte is delayed 🚨
#ICC judges have just vacated the planned date of 23 September 2025 for the Confirmation of Charges hearing against former President of the #Philippines, Rodrigo Duterte, due in part to continued questions over his fitness to participate.
#ICC judges have just vacated the planned date of 23 September 2025 for the Confirmation of Charges hearing against former President of the #Philippines, Rodrigo Duterte, due in part to continued questions over his fitness to participate.
The death of Protais Zigiranyirazo is a reminder that 31 years after the #genocide in #Rwanda, 28 years after the first trial of the #ICTR, & 16 months after the ICTR's officially declared end, many questions around justice, truth, accountability, & punishment still remain both unanswered & urgent.
August 11, 2025 at 8:26 AM
A former #ICTR detainee, still stranded in #Niger since 2021, has died.
Protais #Zigiranyirazo, known as 'Mr. Z', was a businessman and brother-in-law of Juvénal Habyarimana, President of #Rwanda
Tried on charges of #genocide and crimes against humanity, he was acquitted on appeal in 2009.
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Protais #Zigiranyirazo, known as 'Mr. Z', was a businessman and brother-in-law of Juvénal Habyarimana, President of #Rwanda
Tried on charges of #genocide and crimes against humanity, he was acquitted on appeal in 2009.
A 🧵:
August 11, 2025 at 8:08 AM
A former #ICTR detainee, still stranded in #Niger since 2021, has died.
Protais #Zigiranyirazo, known as 'Mr. Z', was a businessman and brother-in-law of Juvénal Habyarimana, President of #Rwanda
Tried on charges of #genocide and crimes against humanity, he was acquitted on appeal in 2009.
A 🧵:
Protais #Zigiranyirazo, known as 'Mr. Z', was a businessman and brother-in-law of Juvénal Habyarimana, President of #Rwanda
Tried on charges of #genocide and crimes against humanity, he was acquitted on appeal in 2009.
A 🧵:
#Reading Recommendation - “Some People Need Killing”, by Patricia Evangelista ( @rappler.bsky.social)
A journalist’s account of #Duterte’s “War on Drugs” in the #Philippines
A deeply human, shocking, compelling piece of reportage, all the more timely as ‘The (aged) Punisher’ now sits in #TheHague
A journalist’s account of #Duterte’s “War on Drugs” in the #Philippines
A deeply human, shocking, compelling piece of reportage, all the more timely as ‘The (aged) Punisher’ now sits in #TheHague
August 4, 2025 at 1:57 PM
#Reading Recommendation - “Some People Need Killing”, by Patricia Evangelista ( @rappler.bsky.social)
A journalist’s account of #Duterte’s “War on Drugs” in the #Philippines
A deeply human, shocking, compelling piece of reportage, all the more timely as ‘The (aged) Punisher’ now sits in #TheHague
A journalist’s account of #Duterte’s “War on Drugs” in the #Philippines
A deeply human, shocking, compelling piece of reportage, all the more timely as ‘The (aged) Punisher’ now sits in #TheHague
🚨 #Syria & #UniversalJurisdiction 🚨
The High Court in #France ruled that former 🇸🇾 President Bashar al- #Assad had head of state #immunity: and an earlier #warrant for international crimes does not hold.
It did not rule out potential new warrants to be issued since he fled to #Russia in December.
The High Court in #France ruled that former 🇸🇾 President Bashar al- #Assad had head of state #immunity: and an earlier #warrant for international crimes does not hold.
It did not rule out potential new warrants to be issued since he fled to #Russia in December.
July 25, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Schmitt finishes the delivery of the judgement and sentence.
#Yekatom was convicted on 20 counts, and sentenced to 15 years.
#Ngaissona was convicted on 28 counts, and sentenced to 12 years.
And I eat my words about the public gallery.
#Yekatom was convicted on 20 counts, and sentenced to 15 years.
#Ngaissona was convicted on 28 counts, and sentenced to 12 years.
And I eat my words about the public gallery.
July 24, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Schmitt finishes the delivery of the judgement and sentence.
#Yekatom was convicted on 20 counts, and sentenced to 15 years.
#Ngaissona was convicted on 28 counts, and sentenced to 12 years.
And I eat my words about the public gallery.
#Yekatom was convicted on 20 counts, and sentenced to 15 years.
#Ngaissona was convicted on 28 counts, and sentenced to 12 years.
And I eat my words about the public gallery.
Judge Beti Hohler, the "alternate judge", is the only member of the bench for whom this is not their #ICC swan song. Bertram Schmitt (Germany), Peter Kovacs (Hungary) & Chang-ho Chung (Korea) all finished their terms in March 2024.
The Yekatom / Ngaissona trial is their last ongoing case.
The Yekatom / Ngaissona trial is their last ongoing case.
July 24, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Judge Beti Hohler, the "alternate judge", is the only member of the bench for whom this is not their #ICC swan song. Bertram Schmitt (Germany), Peter Kovacs (Hungary) & Chang-ho Chung (Korea) all finished their terms in March 2024.
The Yekatom / Ngaissona trial is their last ongoing case.
The Yekatom / Ngaissona trial is their last ongoing case.
