Jean Kambanda

Jean Kambanda , born with the Rwanda, was the Prime Minister for the temporary government during the Génocide in Rwanda. Accused of genocide, like the majority of the members of his government, it pled guilty in front of the International penal court for Rwanda.

Kambanda was condemned on September 4th, 1998 to a sorrow of life imprisonment for its participation in the genocide. It reconsidered then its consents and interjeté a recourse where it complained not to have been able to choose lawyer which it wished to defend it and to be held under conditions nonin conformity with the right. international Amnesty wrote on this subject: “The risks associated with the maintenance with a prisoner in a place with detention not recognized were worsened in this business, because Jean Kambanda did not have a lawyer to advise it throughout all his interrogation. ” The lawyer who was imposed to him by the TPIR, main Inglis, do not speak French, whereas Jean Kambanda is French-speaking. According to the journalist Charles Onana, main Inglis is also “very near to the assistant prosecutor, Bernard Muna, him also of Cameronian nationality”.

The Court of Appeal of TPIR rejected the call in 2000. Concerning the choice of lawyer, the Court of Appeal estimated that Kambanda would have on the occasion to complain some in first authority, which it made forever.

It currently purges its sorrow with the Mali.

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