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Prosecutors demand life for Rwandan in genocide case
11 Nov 2008 19:28:23 GMT
Source: Reuters
AMSTERDAM, Nov 11 (Reuters) - Prosecutors demanded a life sentence on Tuesday for a Hutu man accused of mass murder and other crimes during Rwanda's 1994 genocide, Dutch media reported.

Joseph Mpambara, who denies the charges, had shown "contempt for human values and shocking sadism", news agency ANP quoted the prosecutors as saying.

The 40-year-old is accused by the Dutch state of murders of women and children, rape, assault and kidnapping in 1994, when 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus were killed in 100 days by the Hutu-led government and ethnic militias.

"We blame him for the slaughter of hundreds of people who had sought refuge in a church and hospital," prosecutors' spokesman John Lucas said on TV station RTL 4.

Mpambara, who applied for asylum in the Netherlands in November 1998, is on trial under a Dutch law allowing the prosecution of suspected war criminals living in the country.

The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda had asked Dutch authorities in 2006 to take on Mpambara's case.

The trial is expected to be completed at the end of this month, prosecutors said. (Writing by Gilbert Kreijger; editing by Andrew Roche)




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