By AfricaNews monitoring desk
The man who instigated the Rwanda genocide in 1994 has been jailed 20 years on Thursday. An international tribunal heard the case involving Theoneste Bagosora who was charged with leading a committee of Hutu extremists that plotted the massacre of hundreds of ethnic Tutsis and moderate Hutus.
The former cabinet director in Rwanda’s defence ministry at the time and a colonel, pleaded not guilty. Over 800.000 people died within the space of just 100 days during the genocide.
This is the first time the Rwanda tribunal has convicted anyone of actually organising the killings. In its first verdict on Thursday, the Rwandan court sentenced Protais Zigiranyirazo, 57, to 20 years in jail for his part in the genocide. Zigiranyirazo, a brother-in-law of former President Juvenal Habyarimana, was accused of ordering Hutus to kill 48 people in two incidents.
Some 300.000 people have fled their homes in DR Congo this year because of this conflict.
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