Mathieu Ngirumpatse (born 1939) is a Rwandan politician, who was president of the
MRND
The National Revolutionary Movement for Development (, MRND) was the ruling political party of Rwanda from 1975 to 1994 under President Juvénal Habyarimana, running with first Vice President Édouard Karemera. From 1978 to 1991, the MRND was the ...
.
During a span of three months in 1994 approximately 800,000 ethnic Tutsis and moderate
Hutus
The Hutu (), also known as the Abahutu, are a Bantu ethnic group native to the African Great Lakes region. They mainly live in Rwanda, Burundi, and Uganda where they form one of the principal ethnic groups alongside the Tutsi and the Great L ...
were killed in what the
International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda
The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR; ; ) was an international court, international ''ad-hoc'' court established in November 1994 by the United Nations Security Council in United Nations Security Council Resolution 955, Resolutio ...
(ICTR) ruled was a "joint criminal enterprise" to exterminate
Tutsis
The Tutsi ( ), also called Watusi, Watutsi or Abatutsi (), are an ethnic group of the African Great Lakes region. They are a Bantu-speaking ethnic group and the second largest of three main ethnic groups in Rwanda and Burundi (the other two be ...
.
Ngirumpatse was sentenced to life imprisonment on 21 December 2011 for his role in the
genocide
Genocide is violence that targets individuals because of their membership of a group and aims at the destruction of a people. Raphael Lemkin, who first coined the term, defined genocide as "the destruction of a nation or of an ethnic group" by ...
.
References
Further reading
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External links
KAREMERA et al. (ICTR-98-44)
International Criminal Tribuneral for Rwanda
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1939 births
Hutu people
National Republican Movement for Democracy and Development politicians
People convicted by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda
Rwandan people convicted of crimes against humanity
People from Rulindo District
Living people
Prisoners sentenced to life imprisonment by international courts and tribunals
Rwandan prisoners sentenced to life imprisonment