UN Tribunal on Rwanda sentences Jean Kambanda

Date: 4 Sep 1998
Updated: 30 Sep 2019

The United Nations Tribunal on Rwanda, which was held in Arusha, Tanzania, passed a life imprisonment verdict on former Rwanda Prime Minister Jean Kambanda. The tribunal panel was comprised of three judges led by a Senegalese, Laity Gama. Kambanda cooperated with the panel and pleaded guilty to all counts of genocide pressed against him in May. Despite his cooperativeness, Kambanda's Defence Counsel Oliver Michael Ingliss failed to minimise the sentence to two years imprisonment during the mitigation process.

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01Press Release,(1998), RWANDA TRIBUNAL HANDS DOWN LIFE SENTENCE FOR CRIMES OF GENOCIDE COMMITTED BY FORMER RWANDAN PRIME MINISTER, from United Nations,4 September [Online],Available at www.un.org [Accessed 03 September 2012]

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