The United Nations war crimes tribunal for Rwanda based in Arusha Tanzania, has upheld 25-year jail terms imposed on a former Rwanda military officer and a landowner for Tutsi genocide in 1994.
The appeals chamber of the UN International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) dismissed the appeal by Lieutenant Colonel Ephrem Setako(photo above), who was also head of the defence ministry’s division of legal affairs, upholding his conviction for genocide for ordering the killings on 25 April 1994, of 30 to 40 ethnic Tutsis at Mukamira military camp and some 10 other Tutsis there on 11 May.
It also confirmed his convictions for extermination as a crime against humanity and for violence to life, health and physical or mental well-being of persons as a serious violation of the Geneva Conventions that govern the treatment of prisoners of war.
The chamber also upheld the 25-year jail term imposed on Yussuf Munyakazi, a former farmer and landowner, for genocide and extermination as a crime against humanity based on his role in the killings of ethnic Tutsi at Shangi and Mibilizi parishes on 29 and 30 April 1994, respectively.
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