Mathieu Ngirumpatse Explained

Mathieu Ngirumpatse
Nationality:	Rwandan
Birth Date:	12 December 1939^[1]
Birth Place:	Tare, Rwanda
Charge:	Genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes
Conviction Penalty:	life imprisonment
Conviction Status:	Sentenced

Mathieu Ngirumpatse (born 1939) is a Rwandan politician, who was president of the MRND.^[2]

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.^{[2] [3]}

Further reading

• Web site: From War to Genocide, Box 8: Mathieu Ngirumpatse, the chosen "successor" to Habyarimana. André. Guichaoua.

External links

• KAREMERA et al. (ICTR-98-44), International Criminal Tribuneral for Rwanda

Notes and References

1. Web site: Édouard Karemera and Matthieu Ngirumpatse v. The Prosecutor – Judgement. ICTR. 29 September 2014. Case No. ICTR-98-44-A. para. 3.
2. Web site: Mathieu Ngirumpatse. TRIAL International.
3. News: Life sentences in Rwanda genocide. BBC News. 21 December 2011.