All Africa (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) yesterday sentenced the former head of the Rwandan Tea Authority (OCIR-Thé) Michel Bagaragaza to eight years in prison.
All Africa (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), will next week sentence Michel Bagaragaza, the former head of the Rwandan Tea Authority (OCIR-Thé) and close ally of former President Juvenal Habyarimana.
JURIST (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
[JURIST] The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) on Thursday sentenced former director of the Rwanda tea industry Michel Bagaragaza to eight years in prison on charges of complicity in genocide. As director general of OCIR-Tea, Bagaragaza was accused of training, funding, and arming the Interahamwe, a Hutu militia responsible for the deaths of thousands of Tutsis...
All Africa (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
... Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), which sits in Arusha in neighbouring Tanzania, convicted Michel Bagaragaza of one count of complicity. The defendant had pleaded guilty to the charge earlier this year.Judges Vagn Joensen (presiding), Bakhtiyar Tuzmukhamedov and Gberdao Gustave Kam said the jail sentence included credit for the time Mr. Bagaragaza has spent in detention...
CNN (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
STORY HIGHLIGHTSFormer official in Rwandan tea industry convicted on one count of complicity in genocideMichel Bagaragaza pleaded guilty under terms of a plea agreement 1994 Rwandan genocide killed an estimated 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus RELATED TOPICS (CNN) -- A former top official in Rwanda's tea industry was convicted Thursday of one count of complicity in genocide and sentenced...
New York Times (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
A United Nations genocide court on Thursday sentenced a former tea industry official from Rwanda to eight years in prison for ordering subordinates to kill hundreds of minority Tutsi hiding in a church. The man, Michel Bagaragaza, was found guilty on one count of complicity in genocide by the in Tanzania. Roland Amoussouga, a spokesperson for the court, said Mr. Bagaragaza received...
UN News Centre (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
The former head of the government office that controlled the Rwandan tea industry was today sentenced to eight years in prison after being found guilty by a United Nations tribunal over his role in the African country’s 1994 genocide.A three-judge panel at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (), which sits in Arusha in neighbouring Tanzania, convicted Michel Bagaragaza of one...
The Age (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
A UN war crimes tribunal has sentenced the former chief of Rwanda's tea marketing agency to eight years in prison for his role in the country's 1994 genocide.
