Pakistanis angry over detentions in Times Sq. case Monday, May 24, 2010
ISLAMABAD – Relatives of three men detained by Pakistan for alleged links to the suspect in the attempted Times Square bombing say the men are innocent.
They
AFP - Thursday, August 6TAIPEI (AFP) - - Taiwan's Beijing-friendly government on Wednesday denied boycotting an Australian film festival amid a row over the e
BERLIN (Reuters) - Chancellor Angela Merkel suffered a double blow on Thursday as a senior party ally in east German
Minister seeks closure of anti-Berlusconi websites Wednesday, December 16, 2009
ROME (AFP) - – The Italian government moved Tuesday to close down Internet sites encouraging further violence against Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, who
By ELAINE KURTENBACH,AP Business Writer AP - Wednesday, March 18SHANGHAI - Asia's stock market rally seemed to be running out of steam Wednesday, despite an
My Profile
Holiday Gift Guide
Gift ideas & reviews for this holiday season
Start Browsing
You are here:
Home
>
News
>
International
>
Article
Home
Business & Finance
News
U.S.
Politics
International
Technology
Entertainment
Sports
Lifestyle
Oddly Enough
Environment
Health
Science
Special Coverage
Video
Pictures
The Great Debate
Blogs
Weather
Reader Feedback
Do More With Reuters
RSS
Widgets
Mobile
Podcasts
Newsletters
You Witness News
Make Reuters My Homepage
Partner Services
CareerBuilder
Affiliate Network
Professional Products
Support (Customer Zone)
Reuters Media
Financial Products
About Thomson Reuters
Rwanda's Bagosora sentenced to life for genocide
Thu Dec 18, 2008 7:42am EST
Email | Print |
Share
| Reprints | Single Page
[-]
Text
[+]
By George Obulutsa
NAIROBI (Reuters) - A U.N. court sentenced a former army colonel accused of masterminding the slaughter of 800,000 people in Rwanda in 1994 to life in prison on Thursday.
The Tanzania-based International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) had accused Theoneste Bagosora, 67, of being in charge of the troops and Interahamwe Hutu militia who butchered 800,000 minority Tutsis and moderate Hutus in 100 days.
"Colonel Bagosora is guilty of genocide and crimes against humanity and war crimes," the court said.
Prosecutors said Bagosora, then cabinet director in the Defense Ministry, assumed control of military and political affairs in the central African country when President Juvenal Habyarimana's plane was shot down.
Canadian General Romeo Dallaire, head of United Nations peacekeepers during the genocide, described Bagosora as the "kingpin" behind the genocide and said the colonel had threatened to kill him with a pistol.
In its indictment, the court said that before the killings, Bagosora stormed out of peace talks in Tanzania saying he was returning to Rwanda to "prepare the apocalypse."
"This verdict sends a strong message to tyrants everywhere that if they commit the worst crimes they spend the rest of their lives in jail," said Reed Brody, counsel for Human Rights Watch.
After the genocide, Bagosora fled into exile in Cameroon. He was arrested there in 1996 and flown to face trial in 1997. His trial began in 2002 and lasted five years until mid-2007.
Bagosora faced 11 charges of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity. He was acquitted of the charge that he conspired to commit genocide before April 1994.
BELGIAN PEACEKEEPERS
Bagosora was found guilty in connection with the killing of 10 Belgian peacekeepers and responsible for the deaths of Rwanda's prime minister and head of the constitutional court.
He was also found responsible for organized killings at a number of sites in Rwanda's capital Kigali and in Gisenyi.
Fellow former officers Colonel Anatole Nsengiyumva and Major Aloys Ntabakuze were also sentenced to life for genocide, although General Gratien Kabiligi was acquitted of all charges.
The court also sentenced businessman and Habyarimana's brother-in-law Protais Zigiranyirazo, known as "Monsieur Z," to 20 years in prison for genocide and extermination as a crime against humanity.
Zigiranyirazo, 70, was accused of being a member of the Akazu, the small yet powerful ruling elite of Hutu family members and relatives who are believed to have plotted to exterminate the minority Tutsis. Continued...
View article on single page
Share:
Del.icio.us
Digg
Mixx
My Web
Facebook
LinkedIn
Next Article:
Britain to pull troops from Iraq from May 31 at the latest
Also on Reuters
First U.S. patient undergoes face transplant
Tiger Woods still uncertain about 2009 comeback
Video
Video: Images of Marilyn Monroe go under the hammer
Related News
FACTBOX: The Rwandan Genocide
5:45am EST
Editor's Choice
Slideshow
A selection of our best photos from the past 24 hours. Slideshow
Most Popular on Reuters
Articles
Video
Recommended
Holes in Earth's magnetic cloak let the sun in
Fan death made "Idol's" Cowell think "long and hard"
HIV infects women through healthy tissue: U.S. study
Madoff under house arrest | Video
First U.S. patient gets face transplant | Video
Pirates seize four ships in Gulf of Aden
Chrysler to idle plants, pressure builds for aid | Video
Father offers daughter to shoe-thrower
Obama picks new head of SEC, considers shakeup | Video
Over 30 Iraq Interior Ministry officials detained
Most Popular Articles RSS Feed
Video
Sold! Marilyn's iconic images
Chrysler shuts plants
A new face forward
Talk of the Town
Bush ducks flying shoes
Madoff under house arrest
Talk of the Town
Obama and the Middle East
Lockerbie remembers
UN backs piracy land pursuit
Most Popular Videos RSS Feed
Reuters Deals
The global destination for corporate leaders, deal-makers and innovators
Knowledge to Act
Reuters.com:
Help and Contact Us |
Advertise With Us |
Mobile |
Newsletters |
RSS |
Interactive TV |
Labs |
Reuters in Second Life |
Archive |
Site Index |
Video Index
Thomson Reuters Corporate:
Copyright |
Disclaimer |
Privacy |
Professional Products |
Professional Products Support |
About Thomson Reuters |
Careers
International Editions:
Africa |
Arabic |
Argentina |
Brazil |
Canada |
China |
France |
Germany |
India |
Italy |
Japan |
Latin America |
Mexico |
Russia |
Spain |
United Kingdom |
United States
Thomson Reuters is the world's largest international multimedia news agency, providing investing news, world news, business news, technology news, headline news, small business news, news alerts, personal finance, stock market, and mutual funds information available on Reuters.com, video, mobile, and interactive television platforms. Thomson Reuters journalists are subject to an Editorial Handbook which requires fair presentation and disclosure of relevant interests.
NYSE and AMEX quotes delayed by at least 20 minutes. Nasdaq delayed by at least 15 minutes. For a complete list of exchanges and delays, please click here.