Authority: International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda

Date: 06/19/2012

Subject: The Trial Chamber III of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda has sentenced the accused person, a former captain at the Butare military academy, to life imprisonment for the crimes of genocide, extermination and murder as crimes against humanity and murder as a serious violation of Article 3 common to the Geneva Conventions and Additional Protocol II

Parties: The Prosecutor v. Ildéphonse Nizeyimana

Original language: English

Classification: Dignity - Art. 1 Human dignity - Art. 2 Right to life - Art. 3 Physical and mental integrity - Art. 4 Torture - Inhuman punishments - Degrading punishments - Inhuman treatments - Degrading treatments - Equality - Art. 21 Non discrimination

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