Rwandan genocide jailing hailed

Rwandan genocide jailing hailed

Survivors of Rwanda's genocide and UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon have welcomed the life sentence given to its mastermind Theoneste Bagosora.

Bagosora and two co-defendants were found by a UN tribunal to have led a committee that plotted the massacre of ethnic Tutsis and moderate Hutus. Mr Ban said the sentences were a "major step in the fight against impunity". It is the first time the Rwanda tribunal has convicted anyone of organising the killings. More than 800,000 people were killed in Rwanda's genocide.

Along with Bagosora, former military commanders Anatole Nsegiyumva and Alloys Ntabakuze were also found guilty of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes, and given life sentences.

The tribunal, which has come to play a key part in the process of justice and reconciliation, has so far convicted 34 people and acquitted six others. Twenty-three remain on trial and eight trials have yet to begin before the tribunal winds up next year.

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Source: BBC News

Bagosora was also found guilty in connection with the murder of 10 Belgian peacekeepers who were killed by his soldiers at Camp Kigali on April 7.

I hope he serves his life sentence in the same overcrowded conditions that those arrested and held locally have to endure. I would be deeply unhappy if he was taken to a 1st World country's prison.

Rwanda was the result of European colonization. Black people have been robbed of a knowledge of self. When you rob people of a knowledge of self then they begin to take on the nature and the characteristics of his oppressor and his colonizer. You give them the guns and the weapons then you put one against the other then you say

Look at what these savages are doing

Rwanda has been an independent nation since 1962. Try again.

Pharaoh said:

Rwanda was the result of European colonization. Black people have been robbed of a knowledge of self. When you rob people of a knowledge of self then they begin to take on the nature and the characteristics of his oppressor and his colonizer. You give them the guns and the weapons then you put one against the other then you say

Look at what these savages are doing

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I smell troll!

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yes!!! put him in dirty, ovecrowded medieval prison... treat him like an animal... serve him spoiled food once a day... he should be tortured... throw him to a bunch of Kangals which is not being feed for 2 days.

Pharaoh said:

Rwanda was the result of European colonization. Black people have been robbed of a knowledge of self. When you rob people of a knowledge of self then they begin to take on the nature and the characteristics of his oppressor and his colonizer. You give them the guns and the weapons then you put one against the other then you say

Look at what these savages are doing

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Europeans certainly played (and still play) a role in Africa's problems, but Africans themselves are also responsible.

First, their leaders are often totally corrupted and sacrifice the wellbeing of their population in order to be more and more rich.

Then, the population should learn to stabilize its growth rate. Rwanda is as densely populated as industrial nations like Belgium or the Netherlands (around 350 inhabitants / square kilometer)! According to authors like Jared Diamond, this demographic explosion (along with the former colonization) has totally destroyed the African societies and is destroying their environment.

According to him, there were so many people in Rwanda that no land was available anymore for farming, and a growing proportion of the population was homeless. The result of this was that a part of them rebelled and started killing the richer Tutsis.

Tashah said:

Rwanda has been an independent nation since 1962. Try again.

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Do you think a single generation can undo 200-300 years of social destruction and European favouritism which had as a result deeper tribal feuds? Pharaoh is partially right. The Hutus didn't simply start killing Tutsis because they were the ones who were around. They attacked the group Europeans favoured and the group that as a result of such favouritism was the most prominent in the higher circles. Europeans in Rwanda favoured the Tutsis because of what they perceived were more 'refined traits'. Thands of European colonialism are ALL over Africa. Including the genocide on the Tutsi population of Rwanda in the 90s and before that the one carried out in Burundi, once again by the less refined Hutus in 1972. While this doesn't mean that Europeans are directly responsible for what happened in Rwanda, you couldn't seriously bring up the independence date of a country as a rebuttal to his post. The ramifications of European colonialism are deeper than Europeans are willing to admit. The consequences of colonialism didn't stop simply because these countries gained independence.