Rwanda: U.N. Court Sentences Rwandan Ex-Minister To Life In Prison

The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda has handed down two life sentences to former Education and Culture Minister Jean de Dieu Kamuhanda for the crimes of genocide and extermination, committed during Rwanda's 1994 genocide, which claimed 800,000 lives. On eight other counts of complicity in genocide, crimes against humanity for murder, rape, and other inhuman acts and serious violations of the Geneva Conventions, Kamuhanda was found either not guilty or the charges were dropped.