Taba commune Taba commune Taba is a commune located in the historic Gitarama Prefecture of Rwanda. During the Rwandan genocide in 1994 massacres and atrocities were committed in Taba. The Hutu Interahamwe militia murdered hundreds of Tutsi and Tutsi women were raped in government offices. The mayor of Taba, at the time of the atrocities, was Jean Paul Akayesu. Akayesu was the first person convicted of genocide by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR). After the genocide (ASOFERWA) built a "Peace Village" in Taba. The ICTR contributed 15% of the needed budget to build the 23 houses of the "Peace Village".
Georges Rutaganda Georges Rutaganda Georges Rutaganda (November 27, 1958 – October 11, 2010) was the second vice-president of the Rwandan Hutu militia "Interahamwe". Rutaganda was partly responsible for the Rwandan genocide of 1994. Prosecutor James Stewart stated that "Without Georges Rutaganda, the Rwandan genocide would not have functioned the way it did." He was on radio RTLM (Radio Télévision Libre des Mille Collines) in Kigali in 1994, encouraging Interahamwe Militia to exterminate all Tutsis. It was alleged that Rutaganda captured, raped, and tortured Tutsi women in the Interahamwe Hideouts in Kigali. Other accounts state that Rutaganda captured Tutsi prostitutes believing them to