Rwandan Officer Gets 25 Years For Mass Killings
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ARUSHA, Tanzania — A U.N. tribunal yesterday convicted a former Rwandan military commander of genocide and crimes against humanity for his role in the 1994 genocide and sentenced him to 25 years in prison. Lieutenant Colonel Tharcisse Muvunyi’s troops were behind the “systematic killing” of at least 140 students and Red Cross workers, Judge Asoka de Silva told the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda.
“We have no reason to doubt that Muvunyi had no knowledge of these killings,” the judge said. He added that Muvunyi incited hatred and oversaw roadblocks set up by his troops where Tutsis were separated from Hutus before being executed. An estimated 800,000 minority Tutsis and politically moderate Hutus were slaughtered in the genocide.
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