{{OSLO}}: {An Oslo appeal court on Tuesday upheld the conviction of a Rwandan man sentenced to prison in Norway for his role in the massacre of 2,000 people during the 1994 genocide against Tutsi.
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Sadi Bugingo, 49, moved to Norway in 2002 and became the first person convicted for the crime of genocide in Norway for his involvement in several massacres in eastern Rwanda. <\/p>\n
He is currently serving Norway’s maximum possible sentence of 21 years. The appeal court will rule in January on whether there will be a change to his sentence. <\/p>\n
Bugingo, from Rwanda’s Hutu ethnic group, was accused of having supervised the massacre of a group of Tutsis in a municipal building and within the grounds of a Catholic church. <\/p>\n
He denied the charges but was found guilty of being an accessory to genocide for ensuring that orders for the killings were carried out.<\/p>\n
“The murders were meticulously planned and the accused undoubtedly acted with premeditation,” an Oslo district court said in last year’s ruling.<\/p>\n
The court said the hefty sentence was due to aggravating circumstances, since the attacks were part of a genocide and were carried out in a “beastly fashion” with machetes, bats and clubs and dead bodies were in some cases desecrated.<\/p>\n
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