Ferdinand Nahimana

Ferdinand Nahimana
Born15 June 1950 (1950-06-15) (age 74)[1]
Gatonde commune, Ruhengeri prefecture, Ruanda-Urundi[1]
NationalityRwandan
Political partyNational Republican Movement for Democracy and Development
Criminal statusreleased[3]
Criminal chargeconspiracy to commit genocide, genocide, direct and public incitement to commit genocide, complicity in genocide, and crimes against humanity
(ICTR-96-11-I on 15 November 1999)[1]
PenaltyLife imprisonment,[1] reduced to a 30-year sentence (28 November 2007 by the ICTR Appeals Chamber[2])

Ferdinand Nahimana (born 15 June 1950) is a Rwandan historian, who was convicted of incitement to genocide for his role in the 1994 Genocide against Tutsi in Rwanda.

Nahimana was co-founder of the radio station Radio Télévision Libre des Mille Collines (RTLM), which during the genocide broadcast information and propaganda that helped coordinate the killings and fuel the hatred against Tutsi and moderate Hutu victims.

  1. ^ a b c d "The Prosecutor v. Ferdinand Nahimana, Jean-Bosco Barayagwiza, Hassan Ngeze (Judgement and Sentence)". International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. 3 December 2003. ICTR-99-52-T. Archived from the original on 11 October 2022. Retrieved 21 March 2013.
  2. ^ "TRIAL : Profiles". Archived from the original on 2016-04-06. Retrieved 2013-03-21.
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference JusticeInfo was invoked but never defined (see the help page).