Long sentence for Rwanda murders
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"It's a very important day, a day we have been waiting for the last 13 years."  The verdict is the culmination of a 13-year wait for justice A former Rwandan army major has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for murdering 10 Belgian peacekeepers in the early days of the 1994 genocide. via BBC
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KIGALI, Rwanda, July 16 -- An Ethiopian judge handed life sentences  instead of the death penalty to 30 of the country's top political opposition leaders Monday in a trial  the prisoners have called a sham.
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An 81-year-old Rwandan pastor found guilty of genocide is released after serving his sentence.
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Russia's first race hate murder trial ends in long jail terms for three men who killed an African medical student.
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A Russian court sentenced four men to between 14 months and 2 1/2 years in prison after they confessed to being members of the banned extremist group Hizb ut-Tahrir, news agencies reported Thursday.
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A former Rwandan officer is found guilty of murdering 10 Belgian peacekeepers during the 1994 genocide.
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Four Pitcairn Island men were sentenced  by a British court to prison terms ranging from two to six  years for raping underage girls on the remote South Pacific  island, a British official said on Friday.
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A court in Equatorial Guinea has given sentences of up to 34 years to a group of South Africans and Armenians convicted of trying to overthrow the government.
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ARUSHA, Tanzania : The landmark trial of a Rwandan Roman Catholic priest accused of supervising the massacre of 2,000 of his Tutsi parishioners during the central African country&#39;s 1994 genocide opens at a UN court in Tanzania.
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THE HAGUE -- A UN tribunal convicted and sentenced two former Bosnian Serb army commanders to lengthy prison terms yesterday for their roles in the 1995 slaughter of thousands of Bosnian Muslims from Srebrenica, Europe's worst massacre since World War II. Colonel Vidoje Blagojevic, 54, received an 18-year term for complicity in genocide and other war crimes. Major Dragan Jokic, ...
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The United Nations war crimes court sentenced Bosnian Serb politician Momcilo Krajisnik to 27 years in prison for his role in Bosnia's &quot;ethnic cleansing,&quot; but acquitted him of genocide.
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A former Rwandan army chief was found guilty Wednesday of the 1994 killings of 10 Belgian UN peacekeepers protecting the then Rwandan prime minister Agathe Uwilingiyimana.
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GENEVA - Those behind the &quot;cold-blooded murder&quot; of 22 people at the United Nations office in Baghdad one year ago must be held to account, no matter how long it takes to find them, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan said Thursday.
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Two Aryan Brotherhood leaders and a third member of the infamous prison gang, who were found guilty in July of murder and other charges, were sentenced on Tuesday to multiple life terms.
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A U.N. tribunal sentenced the former speaker of the Bosnian Serb parliament Wednesday to 27 years in prison for war crimes, but acquitted him of the harsher charge of genocide.
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Former Gov. George Ryan, who was acclaimed by capital punishment foes for suspending executions in Illinois and emptying out death row, was sentenced Wednesday to 6 1/2 years behind bars in the corruption scandal that ruined his political career.
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A former boxer who said he wanted to &quot;kill all black people&quot; was jailed for a minimum of 15 years by a London court Friday for carrying out a shooting spree in the capital.