Niger authorities decided to send from the country of Rwanda citizens who occupied high state and military posts during the genocide of the Tutsi people, which occurred in 1994. This is reported by TASS with reference to the disposal of the Minister of the Interior and Decentralization of Niger Amada Adam Suleia.
“Persons will be sent from the territory of Niger on diplomatic reasons with a ban on permanent residence in the country. They must leave Niger over the next seven days,” the document says. It is reported that the decision touched on eight people. Four of them have already departed their deadlines by the sentence of the International Genocide Tribunal, four were justified.
Earlier it became known that in the prison in the capital of Mali Bamako died, ex-colonel of the Rwanda Army TheONeste Bagosora died. The former military personnel 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 a result of a hundred days of genocide in Rwanda killed about 800 thousand people (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 people Hutow, accused of an attempt to enslave Rwanda. Among the dead were also representatives of the so-called “moderate hut”, which the authorities accused of betrayal.