On December 18th 2008 Col. Theoneste Bagosora of Rwanda was sentenced to life in Prison for the genocide of Rwanda. The genocide started when the plane of the president Juvenal Habyarimana was shot down. The genocide was by the Hutu people assassinating 800,000 Tutsi people. The colonel was a leader of Hutu extremists and was also the leader of the Rwanda’s Defense Ministry at the start of the genocide. It is thought that he is guilty and might have been the one who started the genocide.
