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A Dutch appeals court sentenced a Hutu man to life in prison for his involvement in the genocide in Rwanda in 1994. The sentence was pronounced during a public session on Thursday by the head of the appeals court Raoul Dekkers.
The guilty man, Joseph Mpambara, 43, resident of Netherlands, was found guilty of torturing to death two Tutsi mothers and their four children on April 13, 1994.
He was convicted for an attack on a Protestant church he carried out, and for detaining a German-Rwandan and their baby for several hours.
The judge told him he had showed no compassion to Tutsis and accused him of having said they deserved their fate.
By this sentence, the appeals court upheld the previous sentence ruled by a lower court.
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In March 2006 Mpambara was sentenced by a lower court to 20 years in prison but was acquitted of accusations of war crime.
A law allowing the prosecution of war criminals made it possible for the prosecutors appeal to ruling of the court. Thus they got him convicted for war crimes, too.
Many see Mpambara’s conviction as a good signal sent abroad to other countries that are dealing with passing sentences for this kind of serious crimes.
He was tried in the Netherlands as part of an agreement between European countries and the International Court for Rwanda, which stipulates that the criminals can be judged in the countries where they reside.
One of the most terrifying tragedy in the 20th century happened in Rwanda in 1994, when the Hutu nationalist guerillas killed over 800,000 Tutsi people.
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