The High Court Chamber for International Crimes in Nyanza on Thursday, May 28, 2020, sentenced Ladislas Ntaganzwa to life in prison for Genocide crimes he committed during the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi.

Ntaganzwa, 58, was during the Genocide the Bourgmestre (Mayor) of Nyakizu Commune now part of Nyaruguru District when the genocide against the Tutsi broke out.

However, on one occasion, the court relocated to Ryabidandi cell, Nyagisozi sector, Nyaruguru district, an area where Ntaganzwa is accused to have committed the crimes.

The judge convicted Ntaganzwa on genocide, and perpetrating crimes against humanity including rape, but acquitted him of the crime of incitement to commit genocide.

Ntaganzwa was one of the nine people indicted by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) but had not yet been arrested by the time the UN court closed shop in 2015.