Jean Kambanda was born on October 19,1955 and is a Rwandan former politician who served as the Prime Minister of Rwanda in the caretaker government from the start of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi.
11 Facts About Jean Kambanda
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Jean Kambanda is the only head of government to plead guilty to genocide, in the first group of such convictions since the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide came into effect in 1951.
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Jean Kambanda was sworn in as prime minister on April 9,1994 after the president Juvenal Habyarimana and prime minister Agathe Uwilingiyimana, were both assassinated.
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Jean Kambanda remained in the post for the hundred days of the genocide until July 19,1994.
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Jean Kambanda was arrested in Nairobi on July 18,1997, after a seven-week multinational stakeout and transferred to the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda.
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Jean Kambanda was found guilty after pleading guilty, a plea he later rescinded, but which rescission the Court did not accept.
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Jean Kambanda thought it was fair that Kambanda received a life sentence and his crimes had been recognized by the international community.
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Jean Kambanda noted that Rwanda was "not looking for revenge".
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Jean Kambanda asked the ICTR for a sentence of two years because he acted "under duress with limited responsibility".
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The decisions of the ICTR regarding Jean Kambanda have been subject to criticism.
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Jean Kambanda said that his objective was not to plead guilty but to tell the truth.