The case itself had been designated ICTR-98-41. Bagosora was on trial with three other senior military officers as the tribunal was obliged to group defendants to try to speed up the judicial process. The other defendants were Major General Gratien Kabiligi, former head of the Rwandan army operations bureau (G3), Major Aloys Ntabakuze, the commander of the elite para-commando battalion, and Colonel Anatole Nsengiyumva, the commander of the northern Gisenyi sector, a former head of army intelligence.
