Jean-Baptiste Gatete

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Jean-Baptiste Gatete (* 1953 in Murambi , Byumba Province ) is a Rwandan politician and war criminal. The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda sentenced him to life imprisonment for his involvement in the genocide in Rwanda in April 2011.

Life

Gatete was Mayor of Murambi from 1987 to 1993. As a Hutu, he was a prominent member of the Mouvement républicain national pour la démocratie et le développement (MRND).

After the genocide in Rwanda, in which he was involved, among other things, in the massacre on the church premises of Kiziguro in the Murambi community, he fled to the Republic of the Congo , where he was caught on September 11, 2002.

In April 2011, the International Criminal Court sentenced him to life imprisonment . This was commuted to 40 years imprisonment in 2012.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Andreas Kraft: Under corpses. In: the daily newspaper . October 5, 2011, accessed October 6, 2011 .
  2. ↑ ICTR / GATETE - Appeals Chamver reduces to 40 years live sentence for ex-senior Rwandan official. Justiceinfo.net, October 9, 2012.
personal data
SURNAME Gatete, Jean-Baptiste
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Rwandan war criminal and politician
DATE OF BIRTH 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Murambi , Byumba Province