Ex-leader's kin guilty in Rwandan genocide

ARUSHA, Tanzania, Dec. 19 (UPI) -- A brother-in-law of former Rwandan President Juvenal Habyarimana was sentenced to 20 years in jail for his role in the country's 1994 genocide, officials said.

In handing down the sentence Thursday in Arusha, Tanzania, the judge said Protais Zigiranyirazo was part of a convoy of assailants who killed an estimated 800 to 1,500 ethnic Tutsi at Keosho Hill in Rwanda on April 8, 1994.

Arrested in Belgium in July, 2001, Zigiranyirazo, 70, had been on trial since Oct. 3, 2005, AllAfrica.com said. He had pleaded not guilty.

His sentence included credit for seven years already spent in detention.