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Eugene Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-04-07 11:51 AM
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Rwandan convicted of killing Belgian peacekeepers
Edited on Wed Jul-04-07 11:56 AM by Eugene
Source: Reuters

Rwandan convicted of killing Belgian peacekeepers
Wed Jul 4, 2007 12:17PM EDT

By Julien Ponthus

BRUSSELS, July 4 (Reuters) - A Belgian court found a former
Rwandan army major guilty on Wednesday of murdering 10
Belgian peacekeepers in the early days of the African republic's
1994 genocide.

However, the jury acquitted Bernard Ntuyahaga of the murder
of then Rwandan Prime Minister Agathe Uwilingiyimana.

The Belgians U.N. soldiers were killed a day after the Rwandan
president's plane was shot down on April 6, 1994, triggering
the genocide in which Hutu-led government forces and ethnic
militias killed some 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus.

Prosecutors said Ntuyahaga took the peacekeepers from the
residence of the prime minister, whom they were trying to
protect, and handed them over to fellow soldiers in a military
camp in the capital, Kigali, where they were beaten to death,
shot or slain with machetes.

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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSL0469900520070704
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Eugene Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-05-07 07:26 AM
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1. Rwandan gets 20 years in genocide tria
Source: Reuters

Rwandan gets 20 years in genocide trial
05 Jul 2007 12:12:59 GMT
Source: Reuters

By Julien Ponthus

BRUSSELS, July 5 (Reuters) - A Belgian court sentenced a former
Rwandan army major to 20 years in prison on Thursday for the murder
of 10 Belgian peacekeepers and an undetermined number of Rwandan
civilians at the start of the 1994 genocide.

Bernard Ntuyahaga was earlier acquitted on two other charges of
involvement in the murder of then Prime Minister Agathe Uwilingiyimana
and killing civilians in the Butare district.

The public prosecutor had asked for a life sentence for the accused's
role in the genocide, in which some 800,000 ethnic Tutsis and moderate
Hutus were slaughtered.

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But the jury decided on a more lenient penalty, which presiding judge
Karine Gerard said left the door open for reconciliation among Rwandans.

-snip-

Read more: http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L0512763.htm

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