Mathieu Ngirumpatse
Mathieu Ngirumpatse (born 1939) is a Rwandan politician, who was president of the MRND.
Mathieu Ngirumpatse | |
|---|---|
| Born | 12 December 1939 |
| Nationality | Rwandan |
| Criminal status | Sentenced |
| Criminal charge | Genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes |
| Penalty | life imprisonment |
During a span of three months in 1994 approximately 800,000 ethnic Tutsis and moderate Hutus were killed in what the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) ruled was a "joint criminal enterprise" to exterminate Tutsis. Ngirumpatse was sentenced to life imprisonment on 21 December 2011 for his role in the genocide.
References
Further reading
- Guichaoua, André. "From War to Genocide, Box 8: Mathieu Ngirumpatse, the chosen "successor" to Habyarimana" (PDF).
External links
- KAREMERA et al. (ICTR-98-44), International Criminal Tribuneral for Rwanda
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