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Architect of Rwandan Massacre Convicted Of Genocide Receives Life Sentence
Widely circulating reports from Arusha, Tanzania say a former Rwandan Army official who planned and executed the 1994 slaughter of more than 500,000 people was convicted of genocide today. The high ranking military officer is sentenced to life in prison. Experts say this is the most significant verdict of a U.N. tribunal set up to bring the killers to justice.
The court said Col. Theoneste Bagosora used his position as director of Rwanda’s Ministry of Defense to direct Hutu soldiers to kill Tutsis and moderate Hutus thus finding him guilty of crimes against humanity.
See the 2004 historical drama film “Hotel Rwanda” starring Don Cheadle as Paul Rusesabagina the heroic hotel manager who saved more than 1,200 lives during the conflict.
There is great significance in the capture, trial and conviction of another deadly brutal megalomaniac. It has been proven Theoneste Bagosora is indeed accountable for his crimes. This verdict has even more significance for the people of the United States in light of the recent disclosures made by Vice President Cheney and President Bush in their recent television exit interviews.
In his CNN interview with Candy Crowley Bush displayed an attitude he must have picked up from the Dick Cheney book “I Don’t Give F@!k About What I Do In The Name Of The American People”, as he explained why he took the alleged war on terror to Iraq.
In an interview with ABC News’ Jonathan Karl, Vice President Dick Cheney acknowledged playing a central role in clearing the CIA’s use of an array of controversial interrogation tactics, including a simulated drowning method known as waterboarding. “I was aware of the program, certainly, and involved in helping get the process cleared,” Cheney said. He was directly involved in approving severe interrogation methods used by the CIA.
Cheney admits he approved the torture techniques used to allegedly keep American combatants in Iraq safe. According to military officials, CIA operatives in the field, the Department of Defense and the Department of Justice such interrogation techniques proved to increase the risk of American lives. In fact the torture is attributed to the loss of the lives of many American soldiers. Finally we have received confirmation of what we suspected was the case.
We think Bush and Cheney have exposed themselves to a fate similar to that of former military official Col. Theoneste Bagosora.
We wonder why the Cheney acknowledgment isn’t as big a news story as the activities of governors in Alaska, New York or Illinois? Or even the shoe tossing incident in Iraq? No one died in those situations.
Isn’t Cheney’s admission as deserving of the same amount of coverage as the conviction of another murderous official in Africa?
Bagosora, Bush and Cheney have all committed crimes against humanity. The Bush/Cheney invasion and subsequent occupation of Iraq wherein many more have died than the half-million or so souls killed fourteen years ago in Rwanda. We think Bush and Cheney deserve to be tried just like other international criminals in recent memory Bagosora, Hussein, Milosevic, Ceausescu and Pinochet.
Will Americans have to wait as long for Bush and Cheney to be brought to trial for their crimes against humanity?
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