Rwanda Genocide Convict Dies In Senegalese Prison
September 3, 2020
5:43 pm
The former deputy chairman of Rwandaβs ruling party during the 1994 genocide has died in a Senegalese prison, where he was serving a life sentence for his role in the slaughter, a court official told AFP Wednesday.
Edouard Karemera, the deputy of Rwandaβs then-ruling National Revolutionary Movement for Development, was jailed by a UN-backed special tribunal in 2011 for genocide and crimes against humanity.
βI confirm the death of Edouard Karemera in Senegal. The cause is as yet unknown,β said Ousman Njikam, spokesman for the Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals (MICT), which took over from the special tribunal when it …
