WORLD BRIEFING / RWANDA
A Rwandan court jailed former Justice Minister Agnes Ntamabyariro for life after finding her guilty of incitement during the country’s 1994 genocide.
Ntamabyariro is the first senior former government official to be tried by authorities in Kigali, the capital, over the killing of 800,000 minority ethnic Tutsis and politically moderate Hutus.
“She has been individually implicated in those crimes,” Augustine Nkusi, Rwanda’s national prosecutor, told reporters.
Most high-profile suspects in the slaughter have been prosecuted by the United Nations’ International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, based in the northern Tanzanian town of Arusha.
Ntamabyariro was arrested in Zambia in 1997.
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