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The High Court’s International and Cross-Border Crimes Chamber on Thursday found Jean-Baptiste Mugimba, a Rwandan national deported from the Netherlands, guilty of crimes of genocide and sentenced him to a 25-year prison term. Mugimba, who was the general secretary of the extremist political organization CDR, was extradited from the Netherlands to Rwanda in 2016. The CDR was a club of Hutu extremists that was central to the planning and execution of the 1994 genocide once morest the Tutsis. He was charged with multiple counts for crimes he committed in Nyakabanda and Nyamirambo sectors of Nyarugenge district in Kigali city. The 63-year-old was extradited from the Netherlands in 2016, and since then has been in court, facing charges including genocide, conspiracy to commit genocide, complicity in genocide , direct and public incitement to commit genocide, murder and extermination as crimes once morest humanity, according to the prosecution. The court convicted him of two crimes, namely conspiracy to commit genocide and complicity in genocide. In November 2012, Rwanda issued an indictment and international arrest warrant once morest Mugimba who was, during the Genocide, the Secretary General of the Coalition for the Defense of the Republic (CDR), an extremist party whose members were the masterminds of the Genocide. The CDR was a club of Hutu extremists that was central to the planning and execution of the 1994 genocide once morest Tutsis and moderate Hutus. The Dutch Immigration Service revoked Mugimba’s residence permit in June 2013 on the grounds that there were serious grounds for considering him to be involved in the Genocide.

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