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Tuesday, June 6, 2006 - 03:00
Categories: 
Media & freedom of expression [2]
Issue Number: 
258 [3]
Article-Summary: 

A former Rwandan media director has been sentenced to six years in prison after admitting inciting violence during the 1994 genocide. Joseph Serugendo this week agreed a plea bargain at a UN court, under which charges of genocide were dropped. Serugendo, 53, is terminally ill. Some 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus were killed in the 1994 slaughter. Serugendo is a former technical director of Radio Mille Collines (RTLM), which urged Hutus to murder Tutsis.

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Human Security [4]
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http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category.php/media/34859 [5]
Country: 
Rwanda [6]

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