Rulings on Rwandan Genocide

The New York Times story reports that the United Nations War Crimes Court upheld the ruling of the International Criminal Court in the case of Rev. Athanase Seromba. Seromba sentence was increased to life in prison for his participation in the 1994 Rwandan Genocide:

Rather than seeking to protect his flock, Father Seromba, an ethnic Hutu, had the church leveled by bulldozers and ordered gunmen to shoot any Tutsis who tried to flee the carnage, according to testimony introduced in court. There were no survivors.

“Seromba knew that approximately 1,500 refugees were in the church,” Judge Mohamed Shahabuddeen said, handing down his ruling on the appeal.

“He committed genocide as well as extermination as a crime against humanity by virtue of his role in the destruction of the church. The acts of Seromba are sufficient to constitute direct participation in the crimes.”

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