Munyeshyaka has been charged with complicity in rape and genocide, while Bucyibaruta has been charged with genocide, direct and public incitement to commit genocide, extermination, murder and rape.
Rwandan officials have implied that France has provided refuge to alleged war criminals involved in the genocide. It also accuses French troops of training the troops who carried out the massacres, though France denies the charges, pointing to its role in the U.N. peacekeeping mission sanctioned in Rwanda. Rwanda severed relations with France after a French judge implied Rwandan President Paul Kagame played a role in the death of the former ruler – an event which sparked the 100 day genocide.