The Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) has sentenced Colonel Theoneste Bagosora to 35 years and Lieutenant Colonel Anatole Nsengiyumva to 15 years.
Nsengiyumva was immediately released since he had already served 15 years in jail. Bagosora who was arrested on March 9th 1996 will serve an extra 20 years in prison.
Bagosora, former Director of Cabinet in the Defence Ministry and Nsengiyumva, who was in charge of military operations in Gisenyi appealed against life imprisonment sentences imposed on him on December 18, 2008 after being convicted of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes.
Also today the ICTR Appeals Chamber is due to hear an appeal for Rwandan former businessman Gaspard Kanyarukiga and ex-Commander of Ngoma military camp in Butare prefecture, Southern Rwanda, Lieutenant Idelphonse Hategekimana.
Hategekimana is appealing a life sentence imposed on him by the lower court on December 6, 2010, for genocide and crimes against humanity (murder and rape), for ordering the massacres of Tutsis who had sought refuge at Ngoma church in Butare prefecture.
Regarding Kanyarukiga, the lower court convicted him of genocide and extermination as a crime against humanity on November 1, 2010.
He was sentenced to 30 years in prison for his role in massacres of Tutsis at Nyange Parish in Kivumu commune, Kibuye prefecture (western Rwanda), on April 16, 1994.
Leave a Reply