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MINISPOC on Friday carried out commemorative activities to remember its former workers who were killed in the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi.

MINISPOC workers were joined by CNLG, MINIYOUTH/ICT, NYC, RALC and CHON staff in the commemoration event held at petit Stade.

Two people gave testimonies regarding the Genocide and highlighted the importance of this year’s commemoration theme; “Learning from history to build a bright future”.

Three convicts at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) had their guilty verdicts upheld by the Appeals Chamber of the tribunal. But one saw his life sentence reduced to 30 years in prison whereas life sentence was maintained on Lt Idelphonse Hategekimana and the 30-year prison sentence stayed on Gaspard Kanyarukiga, the chamber reduced the life sentence of Maj Alloys Ntabakuze to a 35-year prison sentence.

The tribunal was established by the UN to bring to book key architects of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi, most of them elite.

Since the beginning of this year, at least 22 people have been arrested for promoting or exhibiting the genocide ideology.

According police statistics, 19 of the cases were registered in April, the beginning of the commemoration period in remembrance of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi.

Police spokesperson, Theos Badege, said the recent and most notorious case involves a man who threatened and attempted to behead a Genocide survivor in Ngoma District.