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Justice for Rwanda

Convictions for the 4 “masterminds of the Apocalypse"

"The condemnations issued by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda reach longer than 14 years a duration. They concern the Genocide perpetrated in 1994 by the Hutu extremists against the Tutsi ethnic group and the moderate Tutsie and in which over 800 thousand people died. The extermination, according to the UNO, was "programmed" and accurately prepared by an organized group (Interahawme) of extremists of the bantu subdivision of the Hutu ethnical group. The starting signal was the 6th april 1994 attack to the airplain on which President Habyarimana, his Burundese colleague Cyprien Ntaryamira, many other State officials and numerous Frenchmen (among the staff) travelled. Less than 30 minutes after the attack and still earlier than the moment in which Habarymana, whom the extremists considered as a moderate Hutu, was dead, the massacres which had been prepared for long unleashed. One established a temporary government composed by Hutu extremists, and over 800,000 people were killed in a hundred days only.
According to the court, colonel Bagosora, a 68 years old Hutu who led the army and the Interahamwe Hutu militia, was the "mind" behind the massacres bringing to the death of over 800 thousand people including Tutsis and moderate Hutus, in 100 days only, in Summer 1994. The prosecution held that the colonel announced he would come back to his Country "to prepare the Apocalypse" in 1993, after quitting the negotiations with the Tutsi rebels of the Rwandan Patriotic Front (now governing in Kigali).

18 December 2008

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