A Norwegian appeals court upheld Friday the maximum sentence for a Rwandan found complicit in the death of 2,000 people during his country’s genocide in 1994. Sadi Bugingo — whose guilt was already upheld by a lower court in mid-December — was sentenced to 21 years in prison for “complicity in premeditated murder”.
A Norwegian resident since 2002, Bugingo was charged with involvement in two killings in the eastern Rwandan town of Kibungo in April 1994 as well as having helped remove patients from a hospital, without taking direct part in any murders.
The Norwegian jury believed he had transported the assassins and showed them where Tutsis — the main target during of the atrocity — were hiding. Bugingo, for his part, always maintained his innocence.
Source: {{AFP}}
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