Pair Sentenced for Roles in Genocide
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A United Nations court in Arusha, Tanzania, sentenced former Rwandan provincial Gov. Clement Kayishema to four life sentences on four counts of genocide for his role in the deaths of more than 800,000 people in 1994. The court also handed down a sentence of 25 years in jail to businessman Obed Ruzindana on one count of genocide. The pair orchestrated massacres in Kibuye province in western Rwanda, where the most intensive killings of ethnic Tutsis by Hutu extremists occurred.
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