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Former Colonel of the Rwandan Army Teoneste Bagosora
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In late 1994, the UN established the International Tribunal to investigate the circumstances of crimes against humanity.
Former Colonel of the Rwandan Army Teoneste Bagosora, convicted of organizing the genocide of the Tutsi ethnic group in 1994, died in a prison hospital in the Mali capital, Bamako, at the age of 80, RFI reports.
As a result of one hundred days of genocide in Rwanda, about 800 thousand people (up to 20 percent of the country’s population) were killed. Most of the victims were Tutsi ethnic minorities, who were accused by the Hutu government of attempting to enslave Rwanda.
At the end of 1994, to investigate the circumstances of crimes against humanity, the UN established the International Tribunal in the Tanzanian city of Arusha, the first sentences were passed in 2008.
After the genocide, Theonest Bagosora fled to Cameroon, where he was arrested in 1996, RFI reports. His trial began in 2002. Six years later, he was sentenced to life imprisonment, later the sentence was reduced to 35 years.
France recognized this year that responsible for the genocide in Rwanda… This conclusion was reached by a special commission created by President Emmanuel Macron to clarify the role of Paris in what happened.
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