Juvénal Rugambarara is a former mayor of Bicumi in the now-defunct Kigali Rural province ( Bicumbi now resides mostly in Rwamagana ) . He succeeded Laurent Semanza as mayor of the commune on 16 September 1993 . He was involved in planning , incitement and arms distribution to the Interahamwe during the Rwandan genocide in 1994 . Soon afterward , he fled to the Democratic Republic of the Congo , where he spent three years in hiding . However , when the First Congo War erupted in the DRC in 1997 , he then fled to Uganda , assumed a pseudonym and became a tobacco farmer . He was arrested in 2003 by Interpol , and was sentenced to 11 years in prison by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda for his involvement in the genocide . He will serve his sentence in France
Rwandan genocide
Rwandan genocide
Juvénal Rugambarara