Augustin Ngirabatware
Augustin Ngirabatware | |
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| Born | 12 January 1957 (63 years) |
| Occupation | Politician |
| Political party | National Republican Movement for Democracy and Development |
| Conviction(s) | Incitement to genocide |
| Criminal penalty | 35 years imprisonment; commuted to 30 years imprisonment |
Date apprehended | 17 September 2007 |
Augustin Ngirabatware (born 12 January 1957) is a Rwandan politician who participated in the Rwandan genocide and has been convicted by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda.[1]
Ngirabatware was born in 1957.[1][2] He is an ethnic Hutu from Gisenyi commune.[1][3]
At the time of the genocide, Ngirabatware was serving Rwandan's Minister of Planning in the government of Juvénal Habyarimana, and was a member of the Gisenyi provincial committee for the MRND party.[1]
Ngirabatware was arrested in Frankfurt am Main, Germany on 17 September 2007[4] and transferred to the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda in October 2008.[5]
On 20 December 2012, he was sentenced to 35 years in jail for incitement to genocide,[6][1][7] reduced to 30 years on appeal on 18 December 2014.[6][8]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d e "Trial Chamber Delivers Judgement in the Ngirabatware Case". International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. December 20, 2012. Archived from the original on April 16, 2013. Retrieved 11 January 2013.
- ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-04-05. Retrieved 2011-12-03.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ "Rwanda genocide suspect deported to Africa". UPI (9 October 2008). Retrieved 16 November 2008.
- ^ "Genocide suspect found in Frankfurt[dead link]", The Times (21 September 2007). Retrieved 16 November 2008.
- ^ "Ngirabatware taken to Arusha". Radio Netherlands Worldwide (8 October 2008). Retrieved 16 November 2008.
- ^ a b Gordon, Gregory S. (2017). Atrocity Speech Law: Foundation, Fragmentation, Fruition. Oxford University Press. p. 215. ISBN 978-0-19-061270-2.
- ^ Hirondelle News Agency, 20.12.12 - ICTR/NGIRABATWARE - FORMER RWANDAN PLANNING MINISTER JAILED 35 YEARS FOR GENOCIDE.
- ^ "Appeal Judgement Summary for Augustin Ngirabatware" (PDF). irmct.org. 18 December 2014. Retrieved 15 October 2023.
- ^ "Zoom: The accused still on the run", Hirondelle.org, (30 March 2004).
External links
[edit]- U.S. State Department press release about Ngirabatware, 29 July 2002
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