{"id":21220,"date":"2009-03-24T02:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-24T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/21220-en-en-240309-rwandagacaca-gacaca-ex-deputy-mayor-gets-maximum-sentence-for-1994-genocide1202712027.html"},"modified":"2009-03-24T02:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-24T01:00:00","slug":"en-en-240309-rwandagacaca-gacaca-ex-deputy-mayor-gets-maximum-sentence-for-1994-genocide1202712027","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/21220-en-en-240309-rwandagacaca-gacaca-ex-deputy-mayor-gets-maximum-sentence-for-1994-genocide1202712027.html","title":{"rendered":"24.03.09 - RWANDA\/GACACA - GACACA: EX-DEPUTY MAYOR GETS MAXIMUM SENTENCE FOR 1994 GENOCIDE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p >\nKigali, 24 March 2009 (FH) - The semi-traditional Gacaca Appeals Court of Magaragere, Kigali, Sunday sentenced to life imprisonment, the maximum sentence in Rwanda, a former Deputy-Mayor, Sebastien Muhizina, after having been found guilty of genocide and crimes against humanity committed in 1994, reports Hirondelle Agency.\n<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p >\nThe convict, 40, was during the genocide Deputy Mayor of Butamwa commune and an Interahamwe militia leader. He was classified and tried in the first category of the planners of the 1994 genocide.\n<\/p>\n<p >\nThe gacaca court found him guilty of planning and organizing genocide, execution, supervision and incitement to genocide by holding multiple meetings.\n<\/p>\n<p >\nHe was found also to have compiled a list of Tutsis to be killed, recruitment and training of militiamen, distribution of weapons and complicity in the murder of several families in Butamwa.\n<\/p>\n<p >\nOne of the key witnesses for prosecution, Ildephonse Kabanda, was a former classmate and former colleague of the defendant. For him, Muhizina always discriminated Tutsis.&nbsp; &nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p >\nDuring the proceedings, Muhizina had pleaded not guilty to all the counts.\n<\/p>\n<p >\n&quot;I was not aware of anything&quot;, he stated in conclusion.\n<\/p>\n<p >\n&nbsp;According to the judgement, Rufifi had travelled entire Butamwa commune, well before April 1994, for &quot;sensitization of the genocide&quot;.\n<\/p>\n<p >\n&nbsp;SRE\/ER\/MM\/SC\/GF\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&copy; Hirondelle News Agency<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kigali, 24 March 2009 (FH) - The semi-traditional Gacaca Appeals Court of Magaragere, Kigali, Sunday sentenced to life imprisonment, the maximum sentence in Rwanda, a former Deputy-Mayor, Sebastien Muhizina, after having been found guilty of genocide and crimes against humanity committed in 1994, reports Hirondelle Agency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"ji_location":[],"class_list":["post-21220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hirondellenews"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.3.1 (Yoast SEO v25.3.1) - 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