Saturday, 2 March 2013

Dutch court jails Rwandan woman for incitement to genocide


The skulls and bones of Rwandan victims rest on shelves at a genocide memorial inside the church at Ntarama THE HAGUE (Reuters) - A Dutch court sentenced a Rwandan-born woman to six years and eight months in jail on Friday for inciting genocide two decades ago. Judges said 66-year-old Yvonne Besabya, now a Dutch citizen, had stoked hatred against her ethnic Tutsi neighbours before Rwanda's 1994 genocide in which 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus were killed. The conviction, which was secured under universal jurisdiction - the principle that countries have the right to try the most heinous crimes wherever they were committed - was the first for genocide in a Dutch court since World War Two. ...








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