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Rwandan ex-minister jailed for 35 years for genocide

By REUTERS

DECEMBER 20, 2012 19:09

DAR ES SALAAM - Rwandan former minister Augustin Ngirabatware was sentenced to 35 years in jail by the UN war crimes tribunal on Thursday for incitement and involvement in the country's 1994 genocide.

The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), based in the northern Tanzanian city of Arusha, said the former Rwandan minister of planning instigated, planned, aided and abetted attacks on and killings of Tutsis during the genocide.

Ethnic Hutu militia and soldiers butchered 800,000 minority Tutsis and politically moderate Hutus in the tiny east African country in just 100 days between April and June 1994.

The former Rwandan politician, 55, was arrested in Germany in September 2007. Before taking up his cabinet post, Ngirabatware had been a university lecturer.

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