The first case brought under Canada's 2000 War Crimes Act has seen former milita leader Desire Munyaneza sentenced to life without the prospect of parole for 25 years for genocide committed in 1994.
According to the BBC, Desire Munyaneza was accused of leading a militia whose members raped and killed dozens of Tutsis, and of orchestrating a massacre of between 300 and 400 Tutsis in a church.
The judge wrote that Desire Munyaneza: "chose to kill, rape and pillage in the name of the supremacy of his ethnic group, reminding us that every time a man claims to belong to a superior race, a chosen people, humanity is in danger." How true the latter comment is.
A profile of the milita leader can be seen on Trial Watch.
The Rwandan genocide of 1994 saw the murder of hundreds of thousands of Tutsis and moderate Hutus by exteremists Hutus.
In related news, the trial of former Bosinan president Radovan Karadžić continues in the International Criminal Court.
Thursday, 29 October 2009
Rwandan milita leader Desire Munyaneza convicted of genocide
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