UNITED NATIONS, Nov. 1 (UPI) -- A former Rwandan businessman was convicted by a U.N. tribunal Monday of supervising the massacre of 2,000 Tutsis who had taken refuge in a church in 1994.
The U.N. tribunal based in Arusha, Tanzania, found Gaspard Kanyarukiga guilty of genocide and extermination as a crime against humanity, and sentenced him to 30 years in prison, the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda said.
Kanyarukiga was arrested in South Africa in 2004.
The indictment said Kanyarukiga transported police and members of the Interahamwe militia to the church in Western Rwanda in 1994. The United Nations said the police and militia poured fuel through the church roof, set it on fire, and then used guns and grenades to kill those inside.
Kanyarukiga supervised the killings, then ordered the corpses to be removed and the church destroyed, the United Nations said.
At least 800,000 people, mostly Tutsis and moderate Hutus, were murdered in the East African country during the 1994 genocide.
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