The Great Lakes Eye has previously reported that a number of genocide revisionists, deniers and fugitives are roaming freely in Australia, with the country's Parliament especially used as their den.

Most highlighted was Frodouard Rukeshangabo, a fugitive who directed the mass murder and torture of the Tutsi in Rwanda's Eastern Province during the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi. He was sentenced to 30 years in prison by the Gacaca courts before fleeing to Malawi, and then to Australia where he was given citizenship despite his past criminal records.

Rukeshangabo hails from the former Rubona Sector, in the former Kigarama Commune, Kibungo prefecture. He was nicknamed “trophy hunter” for his enthusiasm in hunting down the Tutsi during the genocide. In 1994, he was serving as an inspector of schools in the area and he led a group of Interahamwe militia in the area, requesting them to bring him the heads of murdered Tutsi.

It is now custom that a section of Rwandans living in New South Wales, a southeastern Australian state, together with regional lawmakers commemorate what they call a “Rwandan genocide." They never use the correct, and universally acknowledged, terminology, “the genocide against the Tutsi”.

A closer look at the people behind this double genocide theory construct and the reasons why they want to differ from the rest of the world in honouring the lives of more than one million Tutsi slaughtered by Hutu extremists in 1994 reveals close ties to the perpetrators of the genocide.

Even though Australia welcomed a diverse community of Rwandan refugees, the majority, especially those in New South Wales are at the heart of misleading the public opinion through the Rwandan Association of Queensland (RAQ).

They infiltrated all spheres of national life there. It is difficult to know the exact number of genocide suspects and genocide deniers living in Australia scot free. But The Great Lakes Eye has been able to track some of them, besides Rukeshangabo.

Theogene Ngabo

Ngabo is the current president of the Rwandan Association of Queensland. He is believed to be the MRCD-FLN representative in Australia. He is alleged to have committed atrocities in the former Muvumba Commune, Byumba.

Pacifique Gakindi

He was charged for genocide crimes in former Gishyita Commune, Kibuye, after which he fled to Zambia, and ended up in Queensland, Australia.

Jean Baptiste Nshimiyimana

Apart from being a genocide suspect, he is also a chief fundraiser for the National Front for Liberation (FLN) of Paul Rusesabagina, who is now under trial in Rwanda for terrorism. He is also accused of supporting other terrorist organizations like the Rwanda National Congress (RNC) which is hell bent on destabilizing Rwanda.

Home to genocide deniers

Apart from genocide suspects, Australia is also home to promoters of genocide denial and revisionism. Among these individuals is Amiel Nubaha, the son of Rukeshangabo. Nubaha is one of the leaders of the Rwandan Association of Queensland which has been commemorating what it calls ‘Rwandan genocide.’

Then there is Noel Zihabamwe and his wife, Delphine Uwamwiza. They very often call themselves genocide survivors. But they are not. Zihabamwe has been spreading rumours in the Australian media alleging that Rwanda’s security agencies abducted his siblings and they may have been killed. Zihabamwe left Rwanda in 2000 as the beneficiary of a Government scholarship to attend university studies in Australia.

He went to study using his real birth name, Noelle Yandamutso. But when the duration of his university course was over and he was supposed to return, he did not. He then changed his names to Noel Zihabamwe.

That is when he began his activities as a supporter, fundraiser and propagandist for anti-Rwanda terrorist groups like RNC and other armed groups. If Australian authorities care to bring to book criminal Rwandan networks in their country, they can easily trace his change of identity through immigration records.

Nelson Muhirwa and his wife, Yvette Muhirwa are part of the criminal network too. They live in Perth, West Australia. They fled from refugee camps in eastern DRC to Zambia, from where they later found their way to Australia.

Robert Mukombozi, a Ugandan, is the Rwanda National Congress (RNC) terror organisation’s coordinator and financial mobiliser in Australia. He is another virulent genocide denier. Mukombozi who has in the past posed as a ‘crusading journalist’, calling himself the “voice of Rwanda” was expelled from Rwanda in 2008 and declared persona non grata by the Government of Rwanda, which partly explains his anti-Rwanda stance.

Then there is Pacifique Gakindi, the RNC Secretary in Australia. This former chairman of the association in Queensland is originally from Kamonyi.  Other fugitives are holed up in New Zealand, the most prominent being Enoch Ruhigira, who was counsellor of President Juvenal Habyarimana.

What is most troubling is that local authorities and the media, in Australia and New Zealand, have fallen for the lies of these genocide suspects, deniers and anti-Rwanda subversive groups.

It is high time Australian authorities seriously examined whether it is right continuing to shelter criminals like Rukeshangabo and others accused of horrendous crimes against humanity