Justice caught up with a 66-year-old man, Eugene N. for his role in the genocide attack that led to the massacre of about 3,000 Tutsis who had sought refuge in a football stadium in 1994.
The Hague District Court on Friday sentenced him to life imprisonment after finding him guilty of preventing Tutsis from escaping the stadium in Mbazi, southern Rwanda, and threw a grenade into the crowd during the massacre.
The court said he was also involved in attacks preceding the stadium massacre, when houses were looted and set on fire.
“Only a lifelong prison sentence does justice to the immense suffering that has been inflicted on the victims and the bereaved families,” the court said.
His actions were committed with “genocidal intent,” said the presiding judge handing down the verdict.
He was convicted of war crimes and the crime of genocide.
At hearings in June before the District Court of The Hague , prosecutors had urged a life sentence, saying that N. was “personally involved” in the killings.
The 1994 Rwandan genocide claimed the lives of an estimated 800,000 people over the course of three months. According to UN figures, most of the victims were part of the Tutsi minority in Rwanda.
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