Rwanda doctor jailed for role in genocide
By Ibrahim Umar
Kanempress News
20th December 2023
A former Rwandan doctor, Sosthene Munyemana has been jailed for 24 years by a French court for his involvement in the 1994 genocide.
Munyemana was on Wednesday found guilty of genocide, crimes against humanity and participation in a conspiracy to prepare the crimes.
The 68-year-old former gynaecologist was accused of helping draft a letter for the interim government, which supervised the killings of Tutsis.
Munyemana was also accused of participating in meetings which organised roundups of Tutsi civilians in the southern Rwandan prefecture of Butare, where he lived at the time.
Mr Munyemana, who moved to France months after the genocide, denied any wrongdoing and his lawyers said they planned to appeal against the verdict.
The public prosecutor had sought a sentence of 30 years during the six-week-long trial at the Assize Court in Paris.
