{"id":20034,"date":"2021-09-26T05:21:18","date_gmt":"2021-09-26T09:21:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/?p=20034"},"modified":"2021-09-26T05:21:18","modified_gmt":"2021-09-26T09:21:18","slug":"rwanda-genocide-kingpin-theoneste-bagosora-dies-in-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2021\/09\/26\/rwanda-genocide-kingpin-theoneste-bagosora-dies-in-prison\/","title":{"rendered":"Rwanda genocide ‘kingpin’ Th\u00e9oneste Bagosora dies in prison"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A former Rwandan army colonel convicted for his role in the massacre of some 800,000 people in the 1994 genocide has died in Mali, where he was in prison.<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Th\u00e9oneste Bagosora, 80, was a senior figure in Rwanda’s ministry of defence at the time of the killings.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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A UN-backed criminal tribunal sentenced him to life in prison, but this was later reduced to 35 years.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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His son Achille told the BBC he died at a hospital in Bamako, where he was being treated for heart issues.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Around 800,000 people – mostly from the Tutsi ethnic group – were killed in 100 days during the genocide.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The massacres began after a plane carrying Rwanda’s then-President Juvenal Habyarimana was shot down on 6 April 1994, killing everyone on board.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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