The former Rwandan minister, Callixte Nzabonimana, was sentenced to life in prison by the International Crimes Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) on Thursday, for his part in the 1994 genocide.
In particular, the case focused on a meeting held on 18th April 1994, in Murambi, where Nzabonimana and other ministers formed an aggreement "to encourage the killing of Tutsis... with the specific intent to destroy, in whole or in part, the Tutsi population as such in Gitarama prefecture," the AFP reported.
In a statement, the ICTR said,
"The trial chamber found that ... Nzabonimana instigated the killing of Tutsis. It also found Nzabonimana guilty of entering into two separate agreements to kill Tutsis,"
Nzabonimana was arrested in Tanzania in 2008.
