Genocide priest gets longer term
A United Nations tribunal has extended the sentence of a priest to life in prison after upholding his war crimes conviction for ordering militiamen to burn and bulldoze a church with 1,500 people inside during the 1994 Rwandan genocide.
The ruling by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda came after Roman Catholic priest Athanase Seromba appealed his 2006 conviction, said a statement on the tribunal’s website. He was originally sentenced to 15 years in prison.
Hutu extremists killed more than 500,000 minority Tutsis and moderate Hutus in 1994.
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