1. Jean-Bosco Barayagwiza was a convicted genocidaire and politician associated with the Hutu Power movement.
10 Facts About Jean-Bosco Barayagwiza
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Jean-Bosco Barayagwiza has been described as one of the "masterminds" of the genocide.
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Jean-Bosco Barayagwiza was a founding member of the extremist party Coalition for the Defence of the Republic, which was considered to take an even more radical stance against the Tutsi population than the governing National Republican Movement for Democracy and Development.
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Jean-Bosco Barayagwiza claimed Hutus were the victim of Tutsi aggression during the genocide and had been acting in self-defense.
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Jean-Bosco Barayagwiza was tried along with Ferdinand Nahimana, a co-founder of RTLM, and Hassan Ngeze, director and editor of the Kangura newspaper.
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Jean-Bosco Barayagwiza refused to participate in the trial, claiming that the judges were not impartial.
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Jean-Bosco Barayagwiza was found not guilty of additional charges of complicity in genocide, murder and violations of Geneva Conventions.
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Jean-Bosco Barayagwiza announced that he was appealing the sentence and was assigned Donald Herbert and Tanoo Mylvaganam as a new defence counsel on 30 November 2004.
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Jean-Bosco Barayagwiza's appeal was partially upheld on 22 June 2009 and his sentence was reduced to 32 years' imprisonment.
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Jean-Bosco Barayagwiza died on 25 April 2010 in Porto Novo, Benin, due to an advanced case of Hepatitis C It has been reported by his family that he was denied adequate treatment.