12-14-2006, 12:45 AM
Former priest gets 15 years for Rwanda genocide
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->A U.N. court trying leaders of Rwanda's 1994 genocide jailed a former Catholic priest for 15 years on Wednesday for ordering bulldozers to level a church, sparking the death of 2,000 people hiding inside. <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->"It was further established beyond reasonable doubt that Seromba spoke to the driver of the bulldozer, encouraging and identifying when to start demolition of the parish and which parts of the parish were the weakest," ICTR said in a statement.
After the roof of the building collapsed, witnesses said militiamen swarmed over the rubble to finish off the survivors.
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Was Church was an active participant in this genocide?
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Last week, <b>Elizaphan Ntakirutimana, a former Seventh Day Adventist pastor, was released after completing a 10-year sentence for his role in the killings.</b>
Although priests were among those murdered, survivors have reported numerous incidents in which Catholic priests and nuns took part in killings, encouraged their congregations to kill or colluded with gangs of killers in rounding up victims.
Some of the ugliest massacres were committed in churches, missions and parishes where Tutsis who took shelter were hunted down by Hutu militias. At least two other Catholic priests are facing charges in Arusha.
Most of Rwanda's eight million population are Christians and among those, the largest single denomination is Roman Catholic.
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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->A U.N. court trying leaders of Rwanda's 1994 genocide jailed a former Catholic priest for 15 years on Wednesday for ordering bulldozers to level a church, sparking the death of 2,000 people hiding inside. <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->"It was further established beyond reasonable doubt that Seromba spoke to the driver of the bulldozer, encouraging and identifying when to start demolition of the parish and which parts of the parish were the weakest," ICTR said in a statement.
After the roof of the building collapsed, witnesses said militiamen swarmed over the rubble to finish off the survivors.
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Was Church was an active participant in this genocide?
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Last week, <b>Elizaphan Ntakirutimana, a former Seventh Day Adventist pastor, was released after completing a 10-year sentence for his role in the killings.</b>
Although priests were among those murdered, survivors have reported numerous incidents in which Catholic priests and nuns took part in killings, encouraged their congregations to kill or colluded with gangs of killers in rounding up victims.
Some of the ugliest massacres were committed in churches, missions and parishes where Tutsis who took shelter were hunted down by Hutu militias. At least two other Catholic priests are facing charges in Arusha.
Most of Rwanda's eight million population are Christians and among those, the largest single denomination is Roman Catholic.
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And our Farmer sidekick Raju Slobo sulks that India hasn't converted to to Christainity yet <!--emo&
--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/rolleyes.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='rolleyes.gif' /><!--endemo-->