A COURT in southwestern Rwanda has sentenced 10 people to death for their role in the 1994 genocide which left up to 800_000 ethnic Tutsis and moderate Hutus dead, legal officials said on Tuesday. The court in Gikongoro commune sentenced eight Rwandans to life in prison, and five others to terms of between six and 15 years. According to London-based Amnesty International, at least 140 people have been sentenced to death for crimes committed during the genocide, some after trials which Amnesty considers unfair. So far only 22 people have been executed, all of them during a public ceremony in May 1998. -AFP
Monday July 9, 2001