An appeals court for the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda upheld a life sentence handed down in 2007 for a provincial leader implicated in attacks against Tutsis.
The Appeals Chamber of the United Nations upheld the December 2007 ICTR ruling that convicted Francois Karera to a life sentence for three counts of genocide and crimes against humanity, the U.N. reported.
ICTR had found that Karera ordered Hutu militiamen to attack Tutsis in his Kigali-Rural prefecture.
Hutu militiamen in the wake of the death of Rwanda President Juvenal Habyarimana, and in the course of about 100 days, brutally massacred at least 500,000 Tutsis in 1994.