A pastor in the Seventh Day Adventist Church has been found guilty of genocide by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. Seventy-eight-year-old Elizaphan Ntakirutimana is the first church leader to be found guilty of genocide by the tribunal and was sentenced to 10 years in jail. The judges said they took into account his previous good character and also his current frail health. The tribunal based in Arusha, Tanzania, heard that the pastor had personally driven Hutu attackers to places where Tutsis had taken refuge. His son, Doctor Gerard Ntakirutimana, was sentenced to 25 years’ imprisonment for murdering Tutsi civilians. Up to a million people are said to have been killed in a series of massacres by Hutu extremist militias against Rwanda’s Tutsi minority in 1994. Full Story
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