Architect Rwandan genocide Théoneste Bagosora (80) passed away | Abroad

The former colonel’s son, who held a key position in Rwanda’s defense ministry at the time of the genocide, told the BBC his father died in a hospital in the Malian capital Bamako. He was treated there for heart problems. Bagosora stayed in Mali because he was serving his sentence in prison there.

In 1994, approximately 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus were murdered in three months. The massacres began after the plane of Rwandan President Juvénal Habyarimana, a Hutu, was shot down on April 6, 1994. All occupants were killed.

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