General report on the special investigations concerning the crimes committed by the Rwandan Patriotic Army (RPA) during 1994

This report is a summary presentation of the activities of the special investigations team.

It includes five parts:

-Background of the special investigations

– Files opened formally (Gorille, Kirye, and Belette)

– Files opened on verbal instructions concerning two RPA deserters

– Files of “other investigations”: Attack on the Presidential plane 1994; Directorate of

Military   Intelligence

– Massacres sites

1. Background

The Team of the Special Investigations was created in February 1999 in Kigali by Mr. Bernard Muna, Deputy Prosecutor on investigation from Mrs. Louise Arbour, the Prosecutor of the ICTR and ICTY. The Team was to work in the greatest secrecy. At the time, only the hierarchy of the Division of the Investigations knew about the existing of the operation.

Since its creation, the activities of the Team of the Special Investigations knew several phases: