{"id":921,"date":"2011-10-01T15:38:48","date_gmt":"2011-10-01T15:38:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/ictr-convicts-two-ex-ministers\/"},"modified":"2011-10-01T15:34:53","modified_gmt":"2011-10-01T15:34:53","slug":"ictr-convicts-two-ex-ministers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/ictr-convicts-two-ex-ministers\/","title":{"rendered":"ICTR Convicts Two ex-Ministers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{{The Tanzania-based UN tribunal (ICTR) has convicted former public service Minister Prosper Mugiraneza and the then trade minister Justin Mugenzi of complicity to committing genocide and incitement to commit genocide.}} <\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-767 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/just_mugenzi_na_mugiraneza_prosper_1_.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>The tribunal however acquitted two other ministers &#8211; Casimir Bizimungu and J\u00e9r\u00f4me-Cl\u00e9ment Bicamumpaka &#8211; due to lack of evidence. The judges ordered their immediate release. <\/p>\n<p>Judge Emile Short issued a dissenting opinion on the sentence, saying Mugiraneza and Mugenzi deserved a reduction of five years for violation of right to trial without undue delay.<\/p>\n<p>The four men were members of an interim government that ran the country after president Juvenal Habyarimana&#8217;s plane was shot down on April 6, 1994. The 1994 Genocide claimed over I million Tutsis. <\/p>\n<p>Demanding life sentences for the four men in November 2008, prosecutors said the ministers blazed a path to hell for Tutsis.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey had no intention to stop the massacres.\u201d On the contrary, prosecutor Paul Ng\u2019arua told the judges. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey poured oil on the flames through incendiary speeches, some of which were relayed on the notorious Radio T\u00e9l\u00e9vision Libre des Mille Collines (RTLM) radio station. The prosecutors main argument was that wherever the ministers went &#8220;they were soon followed by blood-letting and displacement of Tutsi populations,\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a telephone interview with igihe.com correspondents Bosco Siboyintore in charge of Genocide Fugitive Tracking Unit said that negotiations for appeal are underway in reference to the case in which the two suspects (Casimir Bizimungu and J\u00e9r\u00f4me-Cl\u00e9ment Bicamumpaka) were acquitted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are waiting for the court submission so that we can analyze and see what the court base on in acquitting Casimir Bizimungu and J\u00e9r\u00f4me-Cl\u00e9ment Bicamumpaka since they claimed lack of evidence pinning the two individuals,\u201d Siboyintore<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn case we find clauses contrary to our understandings, we have up to 30days to appeal against the decision of the court\u201d narrated in a telephone interview. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{{The Tanzania-based UN tribunal (ICTR) has convicted former public service Minister Prosper Mugiraneza and the then trade minister Justin Mugenzi of complicity to committing genocide and incitement to commit genocide.}} The tribunal however acquitted two other ministers &#8211; Casimir Bizimungu and J\u00e9r\u00f4me-Cl\u00e9ment Bicamumpaka &#8211; due to lack of evidence. The judges ordered their immediate release. 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