Former Ethiopian Dictator Convicted of Genocide After 12-Year Trial
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ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia  -- An Ethiopian dictator known as "the butcher of Addis Ababa" was convicted Tuesday of genocide in a rare case of an African strongman being held to account by his own country.
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A former Rwandan officer is found guilty of murdering 10 Belgian peacekeepers during the 1994 genocide.
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Insult Islam at your peril An Egyptian blogger found guilty of insulting both Islam and the country's president has been jailed for four years, Reuters reports.â¦
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Deposed President Joseph Estrada was convicted and sentenced to life in prison Wednesday after a landmark six-year trial on charges that he took bribes and kickbacks in office.
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A Tanzanian court acquits a man after a six-year trial over the US embassy bombing in Dar es Salaam.
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NAIROBI, July 20 -- The Ethiopian government on Friday pardoned 38 of the country's top political opposition leaders, released them from prison and drove them in three minibuses to homes they had not seen in nearly two years.
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The UN war crimes court for Rwanda has convicted a Roman Catholic priest, the first it has tried, of genocide and sentenced him to 15 years for his role in the 1994 mass killings.
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"It's a very important day, a day we have been waiting for the last 13 years."  The verdict is the culmination of a 13-year wait for justice A former Rwandan army major has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for murdering 10 Belgian peacekeepers in the early days of the 1994 genocide. via BBC
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A Belgian court found a former Rwandan army major guilty on Wednesday of murdering 10 Belgian peacekeepers and an undetermined number of civilians in the early days of the African republic's 1994 genocide.
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A former Rwandan army major is sentenced to 20 years for murdering 10 UN peacekeepers in the 1994 genocide.
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Bahrain&#39;s king pardoned a human rights activist who convicted of inciting hatred of the government and sentenced to one year in prison Sunday in a case linked to criticism of the prime minister.
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An Ethiopian judge finds 38 opposition leaders guilty of charges connected to protests over election fraud.
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An Ethiopian court is due to deliver its sentence on 38 opposition leaders, who face the death penalty.
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Saddam Hussein's trusted cousin and lieutenant is found guilty of Kurdish genocide.
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Former Ethiopian leader Mengistu Haile Mariam was found guilty in absentia of genocide on Tuesday after the 12-year trial of one of Africa's bloodiest governments.
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NAIROBI, July 20 -- Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi announced Friday that 38 of his country's top opposition leaders were being released from prison after being convicted on sedition charges in a trial that critics labeled a sham and that sparked an international outcry.
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Former Bosnian Serb Deputy Prime Minister Radoslav Brdjanin was sentenced to 32 years in prison by The Hague war crimes tribunal Wednesday for his role in ethnic cleansing during the 1992-95 Bosnian war.