Former Rwandan Army Col. Theoneste Bagosora, right, arrived with his co-defendant Col. Anatole Nsengiyumva at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda on Thursday in Arusha, Tanzania. Tony Karumba/Agence France-Presse — Getty ImagesFrom New York Times:
PARIS — A senior Rwandan military officer charged with being one of the masterminds of the 1994 slaughter in Rwanda in which bands of Hutus massacred hundreds of thousands of Tutsis and moderate Hutus was convicted by a United Nations court in Tanzania of genocide on Thursday and sentenced to life in prison.
In a statement, the United Nations tribunal said that it had sentenced the officer, Col. Theoneste Bagosora, and his accomplices, two other Rwandan military officers who were also on trial, Maj. Aloys Ntabakuze and Col. Anatole Nsengiyumva, to life imprisonment for “genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes.” But a fourth co-defendant, Gen. Gratien Kabiligi, was acquitted of all charges against him and the court ordered his release.
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