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| Rwanda genocide: ICTR jails Augustin Ngirabatware | Rwanda genocide: ICTR jails Augustin Ngirabatware |
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| A UN war crimes court has sentenced a key organiser of the 1994 Rwandan genocide to 35 years in prison. | A UN war crimes court has sentenced a key organiser of the 1994 Rwandan genocide to 35 years in prison. |
| The sentence was imposed on Augustin Ngirabatware, a former government minister in Rwanda. | The sentence was imposed on Augustin Ngirabatware, a former government minister in Rwanda. |
| He is the last person to be tried by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), which will now only hear appeals. | He is the last person to be tried by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), which will now only hear appeals. |
| About 800,000 people - ethnic Tutsis and moderate Hutus - were killed in 100 days in Rwanda in 1994. | About 800,000 people - ethnic Tutsis and moderate Hutus - were killed in 100 days in Rwanda in 1994. |
| The ICTR convicted Ngirabatware of genocide, incitement to commit genocide and rape as a crime against humanity, the AFP news agency reports. | The ICTR convicted Ngirabatware of genocide, incitement to commit genocide and rape as a crime against humanity, the AFP news agency reports. |
| "For these crimes the court sentences you to 35 years in prison," Judge William Hussein Sekule told Ngirabatware. | "For these crimes the court sentences you to 35 years in prison," Judge William Hussein Sekule told Ngirabatware. |
| He was planning minister in the militant Hutu-led government at the time of the genocide. | He was planning minister in the militant Hutu-led government at the time of the genocide. |
| Ngirabatware was arrested in Germany in September 2007 and was transferred more than a year later to the ICTR in Arusha, Tanzania. | Ngirabatware was arrested in Germany in September 2007 and was transferred more than a year later to the ICTR in Arusha, Tanzania. |
| The ICTR says on its website that it has completed 71 cases since it was set up under a UN Security Council resolution in November 1994 to try the ringleaders of the genocide. | |
| Ten accused were acquitted while 32 convicts are serving sentences, it says. | |
| It is due to close in 2014 after it has finalised 16 appeal cases. |