A former Rwandan army colonel who was jailed for masterminding the 1994 genocide that left 800,000 people dead has died in prison in Mali, Malian officials said on Sunday
Theonesto Bagosora was serving a 35-year sentence after he was found guilty of crimes against humanity and orchestrating the murder of top government officials by the UN-backed International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda( ICTR).
"It is confirmed. He was over 80 years old, he was seriously ill, with heart troubles. He was hospitalized several times and had three surgeries. He died today in a clinic,” a source in Mali’s prison administration who sought anonymity told Reuters.
His son Achile told a regional new outlet that his dad died at a hospital in Bamako where he was being treated for a heart problem.
The genocide in Rwanda began after a plane that was carrying the then Rwanda President Juvenal Habyrimana was shot down , killing everyone on board.
Bagosora was arrested two years later in Cameroon before being convicted in 2007
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