Genocide fugitives

ICTR’s Appeals chamber upholds 30-year sentence for ex-army chief AFP

Augustin Bizimungu

 A file photo taken on July 27, 1994 shows Rwandan former army chief Augustin Bizimungu sitting in a truck in near Goma (AFP Photo)
The UN court for Rwanda upheld a 30-year jail term for former army chief AugustinBizimungu on Monday for his role in the 1994 genocide during which he called for the murder of minority Tutsis.The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) “unanimously affirmed the sentence of 30 years in prison,” Judge TheodorMeron said, as the former general stood to hear his appeal dismissed in the courtroom in Tanzania.




Bizimungu claimed during his appeal hearing that he had “urged military discipline and respect for the dignity of human life.”

But prosecutor Abdoulaye Seye asked for a heavier sentence.

The ICTR, based in the northern Tanzanian town of Arusha, was established in late 1994 to try the perpetrators of Rwanda’s genocide.



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