About 20 people were handed sentences ranging from...
About 20 people were handed sentences ranging from 15 years' imprisonment to capital punishment from the Ngozi criminal court (northern Burundi) for "involvement in massacres" in northern Burundi after the assassination of the first democratically-elected
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About 20 people were handed sentences ranging from 15 years' imprisonment to capital punishment from the Ngozi criminal court (northern Burundi) for "involvement in massacres" in northern Burundi after the assassination of the first democratically-elected president, Melchior Ndadaye, in 1993.
— SOURCES
- (Sources: Netpress news agency, Middle East Intelligence Wire, UN Integrated Information Network (IRIN), 16/05/2001)
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