隐瞒卢旺达种族灭绝经历的Ohio男子Eric Nshimiye在Boston被定罪：四项伪证与一项妨碍司法成立，2027年1月26日量刑
美国马萨诸塞州 Boston：现居俄亥俄州 Uniontown 的 Eric Tabaro Nshimiye（54岁，又名 Eric Tabaro Nshimiyimana）因隐瞒自己参与1994年卢旺达种族灭绝的经历、并在联邦法庭上说谎，10月27日被 Boston 的联邦陪审团裁定四项伪证罪与一项妨碍司法罪成立。麻州区联邦检察官 Leah B. Foley 宣布了这一裁决，资深联邦地区法官 F. Dennis Saylor IV 把量刑定于2027年1月26日。
检方在庭上出示的证据显示，1990年代初 Nshimiye 在卢旺达 Butare 的 University of Rwanda 读医时，曾参与袭击图西族男女，包括用棍棒击打其头部；他与同案人物 Jean Leonard Teganya 都是当时执政的胡图族主导政党 MRND 中为人所知的学生成员，该党在种族灭绝中起了关键作用。1994年春季，胡图族总统的飞机在 Kigali 上空被击落后，卢旺达在约100天内有约80万名图西族人遇害。证人作证说，Nshimiye 曾在路障处把图西族人从胡图族人中分出来送去处决，并曾用棍棒打死一名在大学医院工作的裁缝。
Nshimiye 于1994年夏季逃离卢旺达、经肯尼亚于1995年以难民身份进入美国，他向移民官员隐瞒了自己暴力参与种族灭绝的事实，其后又继续以虚假信息取得合法永久居留与美国公民身份，自1995年起在俄亥俄州生活与工作。2019年，他在 Teganya 的 Boston 审判中出庭为其作证，声称自己与 Teganya 都没有参与种族灭绝；Teganya 最终在2019年4月被裁定两项移民欺诈与三项伪证罪成立。检方指控 Nshimiye 在该案中协助 Teganya 妨碍司法，并就 Teganya 与 MRND 的关系作了虚假证词，也谎称自己不是 MRND 与 Interahamwe 的成员。他于2024年3月被捕并受到指控。
联邦检察官 Leah B. Foley 表示：「Eric Tabaro Nshimiye 活在一张谎言与欺骗织成的网里。他靠向移民官员谎报自己在卢旺达种族灭绝中的参与、以及他对图西族群体犯下的骇人行径，得以在这个国家避难。美国保护的是受害者，不是暴力罪犯。」司法部刑事司助理司法部长 A. Tysen Duva 表示，被告近三十年来隐瞒其参与种族灭绝的事实，「包括把人活活打死」，又向移民官员说谎以取得美国公民身份、向联邦陪审团说谎以包庇自己与另一名种族灭绝参与者。
量刑方面，妨碍司法罪最高可判10年监禁、3年监管释放与最高25万美元罚款；伪证罪每项最高可判5年监禁、3年监管释放与最高25万美元罚款，实际刑期由联邦地区法官依据量刑指南与相关法律裁定。此案由国土安全调查局（HSI）等机构调查，美国跨部门人权侵犯者与战争罪中心、俄亥俄州 Copley 警局与 Summit County 警长办公室协助，助理联邦检察官 Christopher Looney 与司法部刑事司人权与特别起诉科审判律师 Alexandra Skinnion 负责起诉。
Ohio Man Eric Nshimiye Convicted in Boston of Four Perjury Counts and Obstruction for Lying About Rwandan Genocide Role; Sentencing Jan. 26, 2027
In Boston, Massachusetts, a federal jury yesterday convicted Eric Tabaro Nshimiye, 54, also known as Eric Tabaro Nshimiyimana, of Uniontown, Ohio, of four counts of perjury and one count of obstruction of justice in connection with his concealment of material information about his involvement in the 1994 Rwandan genocide, United States Attorney for the District of Massachusetts Leah B. Foley announced. U.S. Senior District Court Judge F. Dennis Saylor IV scheduled sentencing for January 26, 2027. Nshimiye was arrested and charged in March 2024.
According to evidence presented at trial, while a medical student at the University of Rwanda in Butare in the early 1990s, Nshimiye participated in attacking Tutsi men and women, including by striking them on the head with a club. Both Nshimiye and Jean Leonard Teganya were well-known student members of the ruling Hutu-dominated party, the MRND, which played a critical role in the genocide. In the spring of 1994, after the Hutu president's plane was shot down over Kigali, members of the Hutu majority and those affiliated with them murdered approximately 800,000 Tutsis in about 100 days. Victims testified that Nshimiye directly participated in the genocide: one witness, a 17-year-old boy at the time, saw him club to death a tailor who worked at the university hospital, and other witnesses recounted that he participated in roadblocks separating Tutsis from Hutus to be killed.
Nshimiye fled Rwanda in the summer of 1994 and made his way to Kenya. In 1995 he gained admission to the United States as a refugee by failing to disclose his violent participation in the genocide to immigration authorities, and he continued to provide false information to obtain lawful permanent residence and ultimately U.S. citizenship. He has lived and worked in Ohio since 1995. When called to testify at Teganya's 2019 Boston trial, Nshimiye said neither he nor Teganya had participated in the genocide. Teganya was convicted in April 2019 of two counts of immigration fraud and three counts of perjury. Prosecutors said Nshimiye assisted Teganya in obstructing justice, falsely testified about Teganya's involvement in the MRND, and perjured himself when he denied his own membership in the MRND and the Interahamwe.
"Eric Tabaro Nshimiye lived under a web of lies and deception. He obtained refuge in this Country by lying to immigration officials about his involvement in the Rwandan genocide and the appalling acts he committed on the Tutsi community," U.S. Attorney Leah B. Foley said. "The United States protects victims not violent criminals. This verdict ensures Nshimiye can no longer hide behind his lies." Assistant Attorney General A. Tysen Duva of the Justice Department's Criminal Division said Nshimiye for nearly three decades concealed his involvement in the genocide and the violence he committed, including clubbing people to death, then lied to immigration officials to become a U.S. citizen and lied to a federal jury to protect himself and a fellow perpetrator.
Obstruction of justice carries a sentence of up to 10 years in prison, three years of supervised release and a fine of up to $250,000; perjury carries up to five years in prison, three years of supervised release and a fine of up to $250,000. The case was investigated by Homeland Security Investigations with assistance from the U.S. Interagency Human Rights Violators & War Crimes Center, the Copley, Ohio Police Department and the Summit County, Ohio Sheriff's Office. Assistant U.S. Attorney Christopher Looney and Trial Attorney Alexandra Skinnion of the Criminal Division's Human Rights and Special Prosecutions Section are prosecuting the case.
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图片来源：位于Boston的John Joseph Moakley联邦法院大楼，本案审判法院所在地。/ The John Joseph Moakley United States Courthouse in Boston, where the case was tried. By Mbfitz, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
