{"id":34045,"date":"2017-04-21T09:22:26","date_gmt":"2017-04-21T09:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/munyagishari-sentenced-to-life-in-prison-for\/"},"modified":"2017-04-22T15:11:36","modified_gmt":"2017-04-22T15:11:36","slug":"munyagishari-sentenced-to-life-in-prison-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/munyagishari-sentenced-to-life-in-prison-for\/","title":{"rendered":"Munyagishari sentenced  to life in prison for genocide crimes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{A High Court in Rwanda on Thursday sentenced a man to life in prison for leading and coordinating attacks on Tutsis during the 1994 genocide against Tutsi.}<\/p>\n<p>In the genocide, over  one million innocent Tutsis were killed in just 100 days.<\/p>\n<p>Bernard Munyagishari, who headed a government-allied militia known as the Interahamwe in Rwanda\u2019s west, was convicted of crimes of genocide and crimes against humanity.<\/p>\n<p>Lawyers for Munyagishari said they would appeal.<\/p>\n<p>Timoth\u00e9e Kanyegeri, one of the three judges who convicted him, said Munyagishari had trained the militia in how to distinguish the Hutu from Tutsis.<\/p>\n<p>He also \u201ctold them that to kill as (for a) snake, you have to hit hard the head, otherwise it will sneak away\u201d, the judge said.<\/p>\n<p>Kanyegeri said Munyagishari had transported members of the militia in buses as they went to kill the Tutsis in Rwanda\u2019s former prefecture of Gisenyi and had personally helped to distribute guns, machetes, axes and clubs used in the killings.<\/p>\n<p>Munyagishari was arrested in neighboring Democratic Republic of Congo in 2011. His case was transferred to Rwanda in 2013 from Arusha, Tanzania, where the now-closed International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda was based.<\/p>\n<p>Munyagishari is being held in Kigali\u2019s central prison and was absent during Thursday\u2019s sentencing. (Reuters\/NAN)<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-19478 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/cc434399-bd24-47f6-80fb-83d41acdbab8_cx0_cy8_cw0_w1023_r1_s-f1416.jpg\" alt=\"Bernard Munyagishari\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>Source:Daily Trust <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{A High Court in Rwanda on Thursday sentenced a man to life in prison for leading and coordinating attacks on Tutsis during the 1994 genocide against Tutsi.} In the genocide, over one million innocent Tutsis were killed in just 100 days. Bernard Munyagishari, who headed a government-allied militia known as the Interahamwe in Rwanda\u2019s west, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[72,75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-34045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-featured-news-home","tag-homenews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34045\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34045"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=34045"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=34045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}