In June 1992 he was appointed Chief of Staff of the '' Gendarmerie nationale '' . Following his appointment he began rebuilding the organisation ’s command structure , reviewing the Gendarmerie ’s capacity and in June 1993 he wrote a report on the integration of the RPF into the Gendarmerie . On January 1 , 1994 , he was promoted to the rank of Major General under the provisions of the Arusha Accords . On April 7 . 1994 following the assassination of the Rwandan President , Ndindiliyimana became a member of the Crisis Committee , which was composed of a number of senior leaders of the Rwandan Armed Forces but ended on the 9th of April following the restoration of civilian rule . During the middle of the genocide on June 5 , 1994 , Ndindiliyimana was replaced as Chief of Staff of the Gendarmerie and was appointed ambassador to Germany . On June 17 , 1994 , he departed Rwanda for Zaire en route to Belgium where he would arrive between the 1st and 2nd of July , 1994 . Several senior Belgian military officers helped Ndindiliyimana travel and eventually arrive in Belgium and obtain temporary refugee status . In 1996 the Belgian Commission on Refugees denied his official request for asylum due to " serious reasons to think that the subject committed crimes against humanity " but the ruling was overturned two years later by a review panel . Ndindiliyimana lived in Belgium until his indictment and arrest in 2000
assassination of the Rwandan President
Assassination of Juvénal Habyarimana and Cyprien Ntaryamira
Augustin Ndindiliyimana