Rwanda: UN Tribunal gives former Rwandan senior official 25-year sentence for 1994 genocide

The United Nations tribunal on the 1994 Rwandan genocide today (December 13) sentenced retired lieutenant colonel and former member of parliament Aloys Simba to 25 years in prison after finding him guilty on two counts concerning genocide and crimes against humanity. The International Criminal Tribunal on Rwanda (ICTR) said this was the first case it had decided which specifically concerned the massacres of Tutsi civilians in Gikongoro prefecture and the sentence was based on his participation in the massacres at the Murambi Technical School and in Kaduha Parish.