Rwanda Agrees to Restart Cooperation with War Crimes Tribunal as Tribunal Convicts Tea Factory Manager of Genocide

On January 27, 2000, the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda convicted a former tea factory manager of three genocide-related charges and sentenced him to life in prison. On February 10, 2000, the Rwanda Government said it would restart full cooperation with the International Criminal Tribunal for War Crimes in Rwanda which is prosecuting persons allegedly responsible for the country’s 1994 genocide in which more than 500,000 people were killed. On January 27, 2000, the Tribunal rendered a guilty verdict against Alfred Musema for leading Hutu killers into a factory where Tutsi workers had sought refuge and raped a Tutsi girl. The verdict marked the seventh conviction by the U.N. Tribunal, which was convened to try those responsible for the killing of more than 500,000 Rwandan Tutsis and moderate Hutus in 1994, and the first of a private individual…[more]