This Day in History: September 4, 1998
Additional Date: September 4, 1998
The United Nations Tribunal on Rwanda, which was held in Arusha, Tanzania, passed a life imprisonment verdict on former Rwanda Prime Minister Jean Kambanda. The tribunal panel was comprised of three judges led by a Senegalese, Laity Gama. Kambanda cooperated with the panel and pleaded guilty to all counts of genocide pressed against him in May. Despite his cooperativeness, Kambanda's Defence Counsel Oliver Michael Ingliss failed to minimise the sentence to two years imprisonment during the mitigation process.