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Two convictions in Rwanda

for the 1994 genocide

Two acquittals and two convictions, this was the end result of the trial before the Kigali military court for the murder of 13 Catholic clergymen during the 1994 Rwandan genocide.
The military tribunal acquitted general Wilson Gumisiriza and major Wilson Ukishaka as it held that they were unaware of the alleged facts and of information that would have enabled them to prevent the crime.
Instead the court sentenced their subordinates – captains John Butera and Dieudonné Rukeba, who had already pleaded guilty last June when their trial began – to eight years imprisonment, rejecting both the claim that they had premeditated the murder and the request for 15 years imprisonment put forward by the prosecutors.
The facts date back to 5 June 1994. The four officers were members of the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF), a rebel group that turned into the political party now in power in Kigali. This trial is in fact the first concerning war crimes committed also by FPR men while they were advancing on the capital.
The murdered clergymen included the archbishop of Kigali, Monsignor Vincent Nsengiyuma, the Bymba Bishop Monsignor Joseph Ruzindana, the Bishop of Kabgayi and President of the Rwandan Episcopal Conference, Monsignor Thaddée Nsengiyuma.

24 October 2008

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