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| |  | | Jean Kambanda | | | context : | Rwanda  | | judgement place : | ICTR (Rwanda) | | status : | Sentenced | | particulars : | Condemned to life imprisonment | | position : | Prime minister of the caretaker government during the 1994 genocide |
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| | | | The three most significant facts in the Kambanda trial are the following:
1) The trial was significant by the unprecedented acknowledgment of the direct participation of a head of government in the genocide: "All Rwandans, Hutu, Tutsi and Twa need to admit to each other the truth, all the truth about their life together, their cohabitation yesterday, today and tomorrow. (…) The mask they have always worn to hide their relationships has now fallen…" (See link opposite “Extract of Jean Kambanda's declaration submitted through the Prosecutor's Office on the occasion of his first court appearance on 1 May 1998”).
2) Jean Kambanda is the first head of government to plead guilty to genocide (in consideration of his request that the safety of his wife and two children be ensured). He acknowledged the existence of the genocide and admitted that it had been prepared in advance.
3) The sentence handed down on Jean Kabana is the first to be pronounced for the crime of genocide since the adoption of the 1948 United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. | |     click for more... | |  |  | | nationality : | | | Rwanda | | | date of birth : | | | 19.10.1955 | | | last time seen : | | | Bamako Central Prison (Mali) | | | period of charges : | | | 09.04.1994 - 17.07.1994 | | | judgement period : | | | 01.05.1998 - 19.10.2000 | | | charges : | | | Crimes against humanity
Genocide | | | profile last modified : | | | 04.12.2009 |
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