Justice Served: Rwanda Ex-Mayor Jailed For Life Over 1994 Genocide
By Elite Reporter
A former mayor in Rwanda was on Thursday sentenced to
life imprisonment by court for role in the
1994 genocide which led to the brutal murder of over 800,000 people.
Ladislas Ntaganzwa was convicted for plotting to exterminate Tutsis and ordering the killing of more than 25,000 people.
Ntaganzwa, a former mayor of Nyakizu in southern
Rwanda, was indicted in 1996 by the Tanzania-based International Criminal
Tribunal for Rwanda, on charges of direct and public incitement to commit
genocide, murder and rape.
"Ladislas Ntaganzwa was today sentenced to life
imprisonment over genocide crimes committed during the genocide against Tutsi
in 1994," court spokesman Harrison Mutabazi said on Thursday.
According to the indictment, he addressed the
surrounded Tuts...