{"id":21876,"date":"2009-10-09T02:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-09T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/21876-en-en-091009-rwandagacaca-rehearing-trial-for-a-rebel-sentenced-to-life-imprisonment1268312683.html"},"modified":"2009-10-09T02:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-09T00:00:00","slug":"en-en-091009-rwandagacaca-rehearing-trial-for-a-rebel-sentenced-to-life-imprisonment1268312683","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/21876-en-en-091009-rwandagacaca-rehearing-trial-for-a-rebel-sentenced-to-life-imprisonment1268312683.html","title":{"rendered":"09.10.09 - RWANDA\/GACACA - REHEARING TRIAL FOR A REBEL SENTENCED TO LIFE IMPRISONMENT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p >\nKigali, 09 October, 2009 (FH) - A former officer of the Democratic Liberation Forces of Rwanda (DLFR), General S&eacute;raphin Bizimungu, sentenced to life imprisonment in December 2008 for his role in the Rwandan genocide, has been attending since Thursday his rehearing trial before a gacaca court.\n<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p >\n<p >\nThe gacaca courts - from the Rwandese word for &quot;lawn&quot; to highlight the public procedure - are not presided over by professional magistrates, but by village dignitaries.\n<\/p>\n<p >\nDubbed Amani (Peace, in kiswahili) Mahoro, the general had filed an appeal at the beginning of 2009.\n<\/p>\n<p >\nOn Thursday, several prosecution witnesses described &quot;the cruelty&quot; of the defendant against Tutsis, even before April, 1994. According to the judges, Bizimungu was involved, in February 1994, in the massacre of Tutsis in the small town of Nyagatare, where he is jailed and tried. At the time, he was a young officer in the Rwandan Armed Forces (Forces arm&eacute;es rwandaises, FAR).\n<\/p>\n<p >\nWhen the FAR were defeated in July 1994, he flew to Zaire, where he thereafter participated to the creation of the DLFR. When he finally surrendered in July 2005, he was still one of the leaders of the rebel movement .&nbsp;&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p >\nIncorporated in the new Rwandan Army, he was since then working with the domestic intelligence service.\n<\/p>\n<p >\n<p>\nSRE\/ER\/GF<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kigali, 09 October, 2009 (FH) - A former officer of the Democratic Liberation Forces of Rwanda (DLFR), General S&eacute;raphin Bizimungu, sentenced to life imprisonment in December 2008 for his role in the Rwandan genocide, has been attending since Thursday his rehearing trial before a gacaca court.<\/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-21876","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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