{"id":33051,"date":"2017-04-20T21:05:02","date_gmt":"2017-04-20T19:05:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/33051-rwandan-court-hands-ex-hutu-militia-leader-life-sentence.html"},"modified":"2017-04-20T21:05:02","modified_gmt":"2017-04-20T19:05:02","slug":"rwandan-court-hands-ex-hutu-militia-leader-life-sentence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/33051-rwandan-court-hands-ex-hutu-militia-leader-life-sentence.html","title":{"rendered":"Rwandan court hands ex-Hutu militia leader life sentence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n             Former Hutu militia leader Bernard Munyagishari was sentenced to life imprisonment by a court in Kigali Thursday for his role in the 1994 Rwanda genocide.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n            The high court of Kigali judged Munyagishari guilty of \"crimes of murder and genocide\" but acquitted him of rape. He has 30 days to appeal, Emmanuel Itamwa, a spokesman for Rwandan courts told AFP.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n            Born in 1959, Munyagishari was tried over events in northwestern Gisenyi where he headed the notorious Interahamwe Hutu militia and where Tutsis were thrown into mass graves at a cemetery.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n            Some 800,000 people, mostly from Rwanda's Tutsi minority, died in the genocide after the death of the Hutu head of state, Juvenal Habyarimana, on April 6 1994.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n            Munyagishari was arrested in the Democratic Republic of Congo in 2011. He was transferred to Rwanda in 2013.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Hutu militia leader Bernard Munyagishari was sentenced to life imprisonment by a court in Kigali Thursday for his role in the 1994 Rwanda genocide. The high court of Kigali judged Munyagishari guilty of \"crimes of murder and genocide\" but acquitted him of rape. He has 30 days to appeal, Emmanuel Itamwa, a spokesman for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[553],"tags":[],"ji_location":[],"class_list":["post-33051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-feed"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.3.1 (Yoast SEO v25.3.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Rwandan court hands ex-Hutu militia leader life sentence - JusticeInfo.net<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/33051-rwandan-court-hands-ex-hutu-militia-leader-life-sentence.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Rwandan court hands ex-Hutu militia leader life sentence\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Former Hutu militia leader Bernard Munyagishari was sentenced to life imprisonment by a court in Kigali Thursday for his role in the 1994 Rwanda genocide. 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