{"id":21990,"date":"2009-11-09T02:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-09T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/21990-en-en-091109-rwandagacaca-life-sentence-for-former-mayor-bizimana1279712797.html"},"modified":"2009-11-09T02:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-09T01:00:00","slug":"en-en-091109-rwandagacaca-life-sentence-for-former-mayor-bizimana1279712797","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/21990-en-en-091109-rwandagacaca-life-sentence-for-former-mayor-bizimana1279712797.html","title":{"rendered":"09.11.09 - RWANDA\/GACACA - LIFE SENTENCE FOR FORMER MAYOR BIZIMANA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p >\nKigali, November 09, 2009 (FH) - A Gacaca court for Appeal condemned Saturday the former Mayor of Nyarugenge district (Kigali ), Jean Bizimana, to life in jail for complicity in genocide.\n<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p >\n<p >\nHe had been acquitted on first hearing earlier this year.\n<\/p>\n<p >\nThe appeal court found him guilty of planning, supervising and executing genocide, drawing lists of Tutsis to be killed, and distributing weapons, according to sources who attended the trial. He was also convicted for complicity in murders.&nbsp; &nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p >\nThe gacaca courts, adapted from a form of Rwandan traditional justice, are tasked with trying suspected perpetrators of the 1994 Rwandan genocide which left some 800,000&nbsp; people dead, according to the UN.&nbsp;&nbsp; These village courts, whose judges are elected from the community, can hand down sentences up to life imprisonment.\n<\/p>\n<p >\nSRE-ER\/GF\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&copy; Hirondelle News Agency<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kigali, November 09, 2009 (FH) - A Gacaca court for Appeal condemned Saturday the former Mayor of Nyarugenge district (Kigali ), Jean Bizimana, to life in jail for complicity in genocide.<\/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-21990","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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