Nearly three years after convicting four Rwandans of taking part in the 1994 genocide, Belgium is preparing to try two more Rwandan suspects before the Brussels criminal court. Étienne Nzabonimana and Samuel Ndashikirwa, both businessmen in the Kibungo region, have been detained in Belgium since the end of 2002. Their trial is expected to start in the autumn. At the same time, the Brussels court has begun examining four other complaints. These concern leaders of the Rwandan Patriotic Front, the party in power in Rwanda since 1994, for their part in crimes committed in Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo. However, on 21 April, the federal prosecutor argued that the Belgian courts did not have the jurisdiction to hear the complaints, pursuant to criteria laid down by the law on universal jurisdiction, as amended in August 2003. One of the complaints that cite President Paul Kagame comes from Major Bernard Ntuyahaga, who is himself being prosecuted in Belgium for his alleged role in the assassination of six Belgian peacekeepers on 7 April 1994 in Kigali.