The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda Tuesday, confirmed the sentence of life imprisonment handed to Lt. Idelphonse Hategekimana for genocide and crimes against humanity.
According to the judgment, Lt. Hategekimana ordered the selection,the abduction and killing of Tutsi in a convent of nuns near his camp, April 30, 1994.
The judges also concluded that he had espoused and encouraged acts of rape.
His comrade Maj. Aloys Ntabakuze who commanded the battalion during the genocide against the Tutsi has seen him reduced his sentence to 35 years imprisonment.
As reported by the news agency swallow the Appeals Chamber overturned the conviction of Maj. Natabakuze for the crimes committed by members of the battalion at Kabeza.
The appeal judges concluded that the perpetrators of these abuses at Kabeza were not necessarily under the effective control of Ntabakuze.
The last judgment pronounced sentence of 30 years in prison against businessman Gaspard Kanyarukiga.
The board rejected in their entirety, all grounds of appeal which denounced Kanyarukiga defects in the indictment, violations of his rights during the original trial, a misapprehension of his alibi and that a sentence as excessive.
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