Rwanda Genocide Sentence Upheld
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An international tribunal in The Hague upheld a life sentence for genocide handed down to former Rwandan Prime Minister Jean Kambanda for having “instigated, aided and abetted” the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of Tutsis and moderate Hutus in 1994. The ruling by the U.N. appellate court permanently validated the world’s first conviction of a head of government for genocide. More than 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus were massacred by extremist Hutus.
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