In 1994 , a plane carrying the president of Rwanda ( Juvenal Habyarimana ) and the President of Burundi ( Cyprien Ntaryamira ) was shot down , near Kigali airport , killing both leaders . This event was the catalyst for the Rwandan genocide which , over the course of some 100 days , claimed the lives of between 800,000 and one million people . In November 2006 , French Judge Jean-Louis Bruguière issued an arrest warrant for nine people , including Rose Kabuye , for allegedly having been involved in the attack . On 9 November 2008 , she was arrested in Germany while travelling on business . After the arrest , Rwandan President Kagame expelled the German ambassador and ordered his envoy in Berlin to return to Kigali " for consultations . " Demonstrators staged protests in front of the German embassy in Kigali carrying signs that read : " Shame on you , Germany ! Seventy years after the Holocaust , you arrest a woman who put a stop to genocide . " Charges against Rose Kabuye were lifted in March 2009
Rwandan genocide
Rwandan genocide
Rose Kabuye