Spanish court issues international arrest warrant for Faustin Kayumba Nyamwasa, exiled in South Africa. Case dating to 2008, links him to the violent deaths of 9 Spaniards, including the murder of four aid workers and missionaries allegedly under his direct orders.

In February 2008, a Spanish judge, Fernando Andreu Merelles, issued indictments and international arrest warrants against 40 Rwandan political‑military figures, including Lt Gen Faustin Kayumba Nyamwasa, though in 2015, Spain’s Supreme Court officially dismissed this case.

The case was, before being brought to the court, triggered in part by the murders of nine Spanish citizens — missionaries and aid workers — during that time.

Of those nine, five were missionaries. Four of those missionary victims were found dead in late 1996, after having been tortured, then shot or hacked to death. One missionary remained missing.

Three were working with a non‑profit medical group (NGO “Medicos del Mundo”) and were shot to death in early 1997 while assisting refugees.

Some of the specific names mentioned in various sources include Flors Sirera, a Spanish nurse for Médecins du Monde,
Manuel Madrazo and Luis Valtueña, all killed on 18th January 1997.

Other victims include four Marist brothers in Bukavu, Congo (1996), Father Joaquim Vallmajo and Father Isidro Uzcudun.