The Hague - The UN war crimes court yesterday upheld a life sentence for Rwanda's former prime minister, Jean Kambanda, for his role in the 1994 genocide.
The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) upheld a sentence handed down against Kambanda on September 4th, 1998, by the court sitting in Arusha, Tanzania. Kambanda, prime minister of Rwanda's interim government during the bloodbath that claimed up to 800,000 lives in the tiny central African country in April 1994, is the first former head of government to be sentenced for the crime of genocide.
