Protais Zigiranyirazo aka Mr.ZedARUSHA - The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) yesterday sentenced Protais Zigiranyirazo, also known as ‘Mr Zed’, to twenty years in jail on two counts of Genocide and extermination.
Zigiranyirazo, a brother-in-law of former President Habyarimana, had been charged with five counts that included; conspiracy to commit Genocide, Genocide, complicity in Genocide, extermination as a crime against humanity and murder as a crime against humanity.
Of all the five counts, in the chamber that was presided over by judge Inés Mónica Weinberg de Roca, it only found the accused guilty of two counts; Genocide and extermination.
Of all the five counts, in the chamber that was presided over by judge Inés Mónica Weinberg de Roca, it only found the accused guilty of two counts; Genocide and extermination.
According to, the judgment, the Trial Chamber II found the accused guilty of having participated in a joint criminal enterprise with a common purpose of committing Genocide and extermination as well as aiding and abetting Genocide.
The judge further read that the accused arrived at Kesho hill in the Western Province on the morning of April 8, 1994, as part of a convoy of assailants and delivered a speech to the assailants who subsequently killed between 800 and 1500 Tutsis.
The judge further read that the accused arrived at Kesho hill in the Western Province on the morning of April 8, 1994, as part of a convoy of assailants and delivered a speech to the assailants who subsequently killed between 800 and 1500 Tutsis.
“The chamber considers that the circumstances of the attack, including, among other factors, the coordinated manner in which the better-armed reinforcements arrived, the large number of assailants, and the support of authority figures, show a common plan to kill the Tutsis at Kesho Hill, and that the accused’s actions show that he shared this common purpose,” Weinberg de Roca read from the judgment.
However, the chamber dismissed prosecution charges that the accused was involved in the killing of the three gendarmes and one Stanislas Sinibagiwe.
The chamber thus concluded that there are no mitigating factors that could be taken into account in the determination of the sentence.
Clad in a cream suit, Zigiranyirazo was called by the judge to the witness box from where he was handed the sentence.[more]http://www.newtimes.co.rw/index.php?issue=13749&article=11853
The chamber thus concluded that there are no mitigating factors that could be taken into account in the determination of the sentence.
Clad in a cream suit, Zigiranyirazo was called by the judge to the witness box from where he was handed the sentence.[more]http://www.newtimes.co.rw/index.php?issue=13749&article=11853
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