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Home |   About Us |   Contact Us |   Members |   Search |   Subscribe |   Disclaimer |   THE GUARDIAN CONSCIENCE, NURTURED BY TRUTH LAGOS, NIGERIA.     Friday, June 18 2004   news   editorial/opinion   politics & people   focus/record   business   sports   metro   capital market   weekend   golf weekly   Guardian Chat Click to join the chatroom 180604 today: Ex-Rwandan mayor jailed 30 years for genocide THE United Nations backed court on the Rwanda genocide has jailed a former mayor 30 years for organising the slaughter of 20,000 people during the 1994 genocide. Sylvestre Gacumbitsi led the massacre of thousands of people sheltering in Nyarubuye Church, which was one of the worst events in the genocide. He distributed weapons and urged ethnic Hutus to kill and rape their Tutsi neighbours. Some 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus were killed in 100 days in 1994. One girl told the court in the Tanzanian town of Arusha that Gacumbitsi, 57, had personally raped her. According to the official indictment, the former mayor drove around his district "announcing by megaphone that Tutsi women should be raped and sexually degraded. Gacumbitsi, former mayor of Rusamo, told Tutsis they would be safe in Nyarubuye church but then led militias there to kill those inside. After the genocide, he fled to a refugee camp in Tanzania, where he was found by a British Broadcasting Corporation(BBC) television crew. Denying any knowledge of the killings, he said he was not in the area when the massacres were committed. He was arrested in June 2001 in Tanzania and was later found guilty of genocide, extermination and rape. He was, however, cleared of conspiracy to commit genocide and murder. According to media reports, he showed no emotion, when the sentence was announced. The genocide ended when the then rebel Rwanda Patriotic Front came to power. Eight years after being set up, the ICTR has convicted 20 people of genocide, six of whom are serving their sentences in Mali. Twenty suspects are on trial, while another 22 are in detention, waiting for their trials to start. � 2003 - 2004 @ Guardian Newspapers Limited (All Rights Reserved).  Powered by dnetsystems.net dnet�

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