Pastor Bazaramba Francois has been convicted to life imprisonment sentence over the 1994 tutsi Genocide.
The National Public Prosecution Authority of Rwanda says that, yesterday 29th March 2012, the Helsinki Appeal’s Court in Finland convicted Pastor BAZARAMBA to jail for life.
The Helsinki Appeal Court last year September 2011, came to Rwanda and stayed for 30 days hearing witnesses and visited crime scenes in NYAKIZU, after BAZARAMBA had logded an Appeal challenging the Porvoo District court of Itä-Uusimaa which had found him guilty and convicted him to life imprisonment sentence on 11th June 2010.
The Appeal Court found guilty of genocide committed against Tutsi in BIRAMBO, CYAHINDA, RUSHUNGURIRO, MARABA, and KIBANGU in former NYAKIZU Commune and again handed him a life imprisonment sentence.
Francois BAZARAMBA is the former Pastor at CYAHINDA Baptiste Church and Director of NYANTANGA technical School in NYAKIZU Commune former BUTARE Prefecture.
The National Public Prosecution Authority of Rwanda welcomes this decision by the Finnish Appeal Court.
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