| A United Nations tribunal convicted and sentenced former Rwandan finance minister Emmanuel Ndindabahizi to life in prison for genocide and crimes against humanity in the massacre of ethnic Tutsis a decade ago. ``He was sentenced to jail for the remainder of his life,’’ court spokesman Bocar Sy said by telephone. Ndindabahizi can still appeal the ruling, he said. Ndindabahizi was accused by the Arusha, Tanzania-based International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda of helping to lead the killing of Tutsis in the western Kibuye prefecture between April and July 1994, according to the indictment against him. The court accused Ndindabahizi, born in 1950, of helping to incite ethnic Hutu and organized militias to attack the Tutsi, in some cases personally naming people to be killed, as well as helping to distribute weapons. Ndindabahizi in one case called for the deaths of two ethnic Tutsis and promised the local public office additional money if the murders were carried out. The court found Jean de Dieu Kamuhanda, Rwanda’s former minister of culture and higher education, guilty of genocide in January. Former Prime Minister Jean Kambanda in 1998 was sentenced to life in prison for genocide, crimes against humanity and direct incitement to commit genocide. |