- Hassan Ngeze
Hassan Ngeze (born 1962) is a
Rwanda njournalist , best known for publishing the "Hutu Ten Commandments ", which fomented anti-Tutsi feeling among Rwandan Hutus prior to theRwandan Genocide .Ngeze was born in Rubavu Commune,
Gisenyi Prefecture , in Rwanda. He is a Muslim ofHutu ethnicity. In 1990, he founded the newspaper "Kangura ", initially intended as a counterweight to the popular anti-government newspaper "Kanguka". "Kangura" was financed by high-level members in the ruling MRND party, and later the extremistCoalition for the Defence of the Republic , and thus had extensive links to theAkazu , the network of PresidentJuvénal Habyarimana .In December 1990, Ngeze published the "Hutu Ten Commandments" (sometimes called the "Ten Commandments of the Bahutu"), which made disparaging remarks about Tutsis in general and Tutsi women in particular. [ [http://www.trumanwebdesign.com/~catalina/commandments.htm Hutu Ten Commandments] ]
In 1993, Ngeze became a
shareholder andcorrespondent for the newly-foundedRadio Télévision Libre des Mille Collines (RTLM), which was largely a radio equivalent of "Kangura".Genocide
During the
Rwandan Genocide , Ngeze provided RTLM with names of people to be killed in his prefecture [ [http://69.94.11.53/ENGLISH/cases/Ngeze/index.htm International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, Summary of Judgment] ] , which were broadcast on air. He was interviewed by RTLM and Radio Rwanda several times between April and June 1994, and in these broadcasts called for the extermination of the Tutsis and Hutus in opposition to the government.At the same time, "Kangura" published lists of people to be eliminated by the military and the
Interahamwe andImpuzamugambi militias during the genocide.Ngeze is alleged to have personally supervised and taken part in
torture , mass rape, and killings in his native Gisenyi Prefecture. He was also an organizer of theImpuzamugambi militia.Ngeze fled Rwanda in June 1994 as the country fell to the RPF. He was arrested in
Mombasa ,Kenya onJuly 18 ,1997 , and was sentenced tolife imprisonment in 2003, by theInternational Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda . In 2007, the Appeals Chamber of the ICTR reversed some of his convictions, but confirmed others. It also changed his life sentence to one of 35 years' imprisonment.References
External links
* [http://www.hassanngeze.s5.com/ Pro-Ngeze site]
* [http://www.trumanwebdesign.com/~catalina/kangura.htm Kanguka and Kangura magazines]
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