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03-13-2008, 12:34 PM
War Crimes Court Upholds Ruling on Rwandan
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By AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE
Published: March 13, 2008
ARUSHA, Tanzania (Agence France-Presse) ? A United Nations war crimes court on Wednesday upheld the war crimes and genocide conviction of a Roman Catholic priest and increased his sentence to life in prison for his part in the killings of 800,000 fellow Rwandans.
In April 1994, when pro-government Hutu militiamen were rounding up ethnic Tutsi and moderate Hutu for slaughter across Rwanda, 1,500 parishioners of the priest, the Rev. Athanase Seromba, took shelter in his church in the town of Nyange.
Rather than seeking to protect his flock, Father Seromba, an ethnic Hutu, had the church leveled by bulldozers and ordered gunmen to shoot any Tutsis who tried to flee the carnage, according to testimony introduced in court. There were no survivors...
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/13/world/africa/13rwanda.html?ex=1205985600&en=ac067054aad1d037&ei=5099&partner=TOPIXNEWS
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By AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE
Published: March 13, 2008
ARUSHA, Tanzania (Agence France-Presse) ? A United Nations war crimes court on Wednesday upheld the war crimes and genocide conviction of a Roman Catholic priest and increased his sentence to life in prison for his part in the killings of 800,000 fellow Rwandans.
In April 1994, when pro-government Hutu militiamen were rounding up ethnic Tutsi and moderate Hutu for slaughter across Rwanda, 1,500 parishioners of the priest, the Rev. Athanase Seromba, took shelter in his church in the town of Nyange.
Rather than seeking to protect his flock, Father Seromba, an ethnic Hutu, had the church leveled by bulldozers and ordered gunmen to shoot any Tutsis who tried to flee the carnage, according to testimony introduced in court. There were no survivors...
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/13/world/africa/13rwanda.html?ex=1205985600&en=ac067054aad1d037&ei=5099&partner=TOPIXNEWS