Ex-Mayor’s Life Term for War Crimes Is Cut
From Times Wire Reports
Fulgence Niyonteze, a former mayor who was imprisoned for life last year for his role in Rwanda’s 1994 genocide, had his sentence reduced to 14 years. He sat impassively as a Swiss military tribunal in Geneva found him guilty of violating the Geneva Conventions. But citing legal technicalities, the five judges upheld his appeal of the life term. Niyonteze allegedly incited and provided weapons to Hutu extremists to kill Tutsis and moderate Hutus.
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