U.N. Convicts Former Mayor in ’94 Genocide
From Times Wire Reports
A United Nations tribunal in Arusha, Tanzania, convicted a former Rwandan mayor, Juvenal Kajelijeli, and sentenced him to life in prison for his role in the 1994 genocide that killed more than 500,000 people in his tiny central African country.
The judge cited attacks that included one in which 300 minority Tutsis were killed with weapons procured by the 52-year-old Kajelijeli, mayor of Mukingo.
The Hutu extremist government orchestrated the slaughter of Tutsis and politically moderate Hutus over 100 days.
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