Rwandan gets life for genocide

Arusha, Tanzania - A United Nations court yesterday sentenced a former Rwandan tea factory boss, Alfred Musema, to life imprisonment…

Arusha, Tanzania - A United Nations court yesterday sentenced a former Rwandan tea factory boss, Alfred Musema, to life imprisonment for genocide and crimes against humanity.

"Musema personally led attackers to attack large numbers of Tutsi refugees and raped a young Tutsi woman," presiding judge Mr Lennart Aspegren of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda said as he read the judgment.

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