Former Rwandan Militia Leader Guilty of Genocide
A U.N. court convicted a former Rwandan Hutu militia leader Monday of ordering the deaths of thousands of Tutsis and sentenced him to life in prison for genocide and crimes against humanity.
Georges Rutaganda “deliberately participated in the crimes and has not shown the slightest remorse,” Judge Laity Kama said.
Rutaganda, convicted on three of eight counts of genocide and crimes against humanity, was vice president of the Interahamwe militia. Its forces, together with the army and security forces, carried out the 1994 government-orchestrated slaughter of more than 800,000 minority Tutsis and politically moderate Hutus.
The former businessman ordered killings and “took no steps to stop the Interahamwe from committing crimes, but on the contrary, he even killed with his own hands,” the three-judge panel said.
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