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Rwanda: UN court Upholds 25-year Jail Terms on Two Convicted for Genocide

NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–29 September 2011.   

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The United Nations war crimes tribunal for Rwanda today upheld 25-year jail terms imposed on a former top military officer and a landowner for genocide in the massacres that killed some 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus, often by machete or club, during a 100-day period in 1994.

The appeals chamber of the UN International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) dismissed the appeal by Lieutenant Colonel Ephrem Setako, who was also…

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