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Two former Rwandan ministers have been jailed by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) for conspiracy to commit genocide and direct and public incitement to commit genocide.
Former foreign affairs minister Jerome-Clement Bicamumpaka and former health minister Casimir Bizimungu were both sentenced to 30 years in prison.
However, two other former ministers were acquitted due to insufficient evidence.
All four ministers were accused of making speeches at rallies inciting massacres of Tutsis, during the genocide in Rwanda.
The ICTR was set up by the United Nations in 1994 to hold the perpetrators of the genocide accountable and to contribute to national reconciliation by challenging the impunity with which the officials involved acted.
