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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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A Dutch court convicts a Rwandan man over his home country's 1994 genocide, sentences him to life

Netherlands Rwanda Genocide - (Copyright 2014 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)

A Dutch court on Friday convicted a Rwandan man of participation in his home country's 1994 genocide and sentenced him to life imprisonment.

The 66-year-old defendant, whose name was not released, took part in attacks in which homes were looted and torched in two predominantly Tutsi communities and threw a grenade into a crowd of Tutsis sheltering in a soccer stadium, The Hague District Court said in a written statement after his conviction.

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