The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda [ICTR] based in Arusha, Tanzania, has refuted a request by Omar Serushago who was chief of the Interahamwe [Rwanda Hutu militia] in Gisenyi Province [northwestern Rwanda] and Georges Ruggiu, an italo -Belgian who was a former presenter of Radio Libre de Milles Collines to be freed before serving their 12 to 15 year imprisonment term.
After pleading guilty of the role in the 1994, Omar Serushago who’s aged 44 was sentenced to serve 15 years in prison and Georges Ruggiu aged 48 to 12 years in prison.
Mr Serushago is accused of slaughtering four people during the genocide and ordered the killings of 33 others. He is being detained at the ICTR since 1998.
Mr Ruggiu, a former RTLM presenter who was arrested in 1997, is the only foreigner to be sentenced at the court and he is accused of inciting Rwandans to commit the genocide.
