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Rwandan Ntawukulilyayo gets 25 years for genocide crime

The United Nations tribunal for Rwanda has sentenced a Rwandan former official to 25 years in jail for his role in the 1994 genocide.

Dominique Ntawukulilyayo, 68, was accused of transporting soldiers to an area of the southern Gisagara district where Tutsis had taken refuge.

Thousands of people who had been promised protection were killed.

About 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus were killed by Hutu militias in 100 days during Rwanda's genocide.

Ntawukulilyayo was indicted by the indicted the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), which is based in Tanzania, in 2005 and was arrested in December 2007 in Carcassonne in France....
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