Nigerian authorities expel Rwandans who held high positions during the Tutsi genocide
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The Nigerian authorities decided to expel from the country the Rwandan citizens who held high government and military posts during the 1994 genocide of the Tutsi people. TASS writes about this with reference to the order of the Minister of Internal Affairs and Decentralization of Niger, Amadou Adamu Suleya.
“Individuals are expelled from the territory of Niger for diplomatic reasons with a ban on permanent residence in the country. They must leave Niger within the next seven days, ”the document says. The decision reportedly affected eight people. Four of them have already served their sentences by the international tribunal for genocide, and four more have been acquitted.
Earlier it became known that ex-colonel of the Rwandan army Theoneste Bagosora died in a prison in the capital of Mali, Bamako. A former soldier was convicted of organizing the genocide of the Tutsi ethnic group in 1994, he was sentenced to 35 years in prison. He died in the prison hospital at the age of 80.
As a result of one hundred days of genocide in Rwanda, about 800 thousand people (up to 20 percent of the country's population) were killed. The majority of the victims were of an ethnic Tutsi minority, whom the Hutu government accused of attempting to enslave Rwanda. Among the dead were also representatives of the so-called “moderate Hutu”, whom the authorities accused of treason.
