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| |  | | Athanase Seromba | | | context : | Rwanda  | | judgement place : | ICTR (Rwanda) | | status : | Sentenced | | particulars : | Sentenced to 15 years' imprisonment on 13 December 2006 by the ICTR; sentenced to life imprisonment by the Appeals Chamber on 12 March 2008 | | position : | Catholic Priest |
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| | | | Athanase Seromba was born in the commune of Rutziro, Rwanda. At the time of the events, he was a catholic priest in the parish of Nyange in the Kibuye prefecture.
From April 1994, Athanase Seromba is accused of having planned, organised and supervised several attacks, against Tutsi refugees by the Interahamwe militia, as well as the Rwandan gendarmerie and the communal police, in the commune of Kiwuma.
In particular, he is reported to have been an active participant in the massacre of around 2'000 civilians who had taken refuge in his church in Nyange.
Athanase Seromba, who had fled to Italy in 1997 and was working as a priest, under a false identity in two parishes near Florence. He surrendered to the ICTR (International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda) on 6 February 2002. | |     click for more... | | Trial Watch would like to remind its users that any person charged by national or international authorities is presumed innocent until proven guilty. | |  |  | | last time seen : | | | Arusha (Tanzania) | | | period of charges : | | | 01.04.1994 - 20.04.1994 | | | judgement period : | | | 20.09.1994 - 12.03.2008 | | | charges : | | | Crimes against humanity
Genocide | | | profile last modified : | | | 05.06.2008 |
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