Life sentence for Rwandan genocide leader

Rwanda's High Court sentenced a former mayor to life in prison for his role in the 1994 genocide, which included leading attacks that resulted in the deaths of around 25 000 ethnic Tutsis in his town. Ladislas Ntaganzwa was arrested in the DRC in 2015. A report on the News24 site notes that Rwanda's prosecution authority said he was convicted for 'genocide, extermination as crime against humanity and rape as a crime against humanity'. At the same time, he was acquitted of 'murder as a crime against humanity and direct and public incitement to commit genocide'. Ntaganzwa was the third suspect to be tried in Rwanda, after earlier genocide accused were tried by the UN-backed International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda which closed in 2015.