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| Rwandan convicted for Tutsi deaths |
| 2009-03-25 |
| A Rwandan man has been sentenced to 20 years in jail by a court in the Hague for killing two Tutsi woman and their four children in 1994. Joseph Mpambara, 40, was found guilty by the Hague District Court on Monday for participation in crimes committed during Rwanda's 1994 genocide, in which at least 800,000 Tutsis and Hutus died. Mpambara, living in the Netherlands since 1998, was acquitted of involvement in the carnage of hundreds of other Tutsis. He was also acquitted of raping four women and killing one of them in a separate incident in the absence of sufficient evidence. He has faced trial after several European countries and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) have reached an agreement to try genocide suspects in their national courts. Mpambara was also found guilty of detaining a German doctor, his Tutsi wife and their infant son and threatening their lives. Previously the ICTR sentenced Mpambara's brother to 25 years in prison for crimes against humanity in Arusha; a Rwandan court sentenced his sister to life imprisonment for taking part in genocide. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 if he was involved in killing 4 then more than likely he helped in the other 700,000 |
| Posted by: rabid whitetail 2009-03-25 20:36 |