Rwandan Ex-Mayor Convicted in Genocide
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A U.N. tribunal trying the alleged masterminds of Rwanda’s 1994 genocide convicted a former Rwandan mayor for his role in the slaughter and sentenced him to 30 years in prison.
Sylvestre Gacumbitsi, 57, was convicted by the Tanzania-based International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda of genocide, extermination and rape for ordering the killings of minority Tutsis in the commune of Rusumo, where he was mayor.
More than 800,000 minority Tutsis and political moderates from Rwanda’s Hutu majority were killed in the genocide orchestrated by Hutu extremists.
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