Ex-Colonel of the Rwanda Army Teundesta Bagosor (TheONSe Bagosora) died in prison in the capital of Mali Bamako, this was reported to RFI radio stations with reference to the application of the administration of the penitentiary institution, TASS reports.
The former soldier was convicted of organizing the Genocide of the Ethnos Tutsi in 1994, he was sentenced to 35 years of conclusion. He died in a prison hospital at the age of 80.
As the radio station said, his son said first about the death of Bagosor, the prison administration in Bamako confirmed this information. It is noted that the ex-colonel in the 90s was Deputy Minister of Defense of Rwanda.
After the genocide, he fled to Cameroon and was arrested in 1996, the court began in 2002. The UN International Tribunal in Rwanda six years sentenced him to life imprisonment, but later it was reduced.
In December 2011, the UN International Tribunal also sentenced to the life imprisonment of the former chairman of the ruling MRND party and his deputy for organizing the genocide of the National Genocide of Tutsi in 1994. The court chaired by Dennis Byron (Dennis Byron) was sentenced against Mathieu Ngirumpatse (Mathieu Ngirumpatse) and Eduard Karamera (Edouard Karemera) unanimously.
As a result of a hundred days of genocide, about 800 thousand people died in Rwanda (up to 20 percent of the country’s population). Most of the victims were an ethnic minority from the nationality of Tutsi, whom the government, consisting of representatives of the Hutu, accused of an attempt to enslave Rwanda. Among the dead were also representatives of the so-called “temperate hut”, which the authorities accused of betrayal.