UN WAR crimes judges have rejected an appeal by former Rwandan Prime Minister Jean Kambanda against his conviction for inciting Rwanda’s 1994 genocide. The judges upheld Kambanda’s 1998 sentence of life imprisonment, passed after he confessed to involvement in the slaughter of an estimated 800000 civilians, mainly ethnic Tutsis and moderate Hutus. Kambanda, of the majority Hutus, was prime minister in the interim government during the genocide of April-July 1994. – Reuters