Habyarimana assassination report [Rwanda Mutsinzi Commission] News
Habyarimana assassination report [Rwanda Mutsinzi Commission]

Report of the Investigation into the Causes and Circumstances of and Responsibility for the Attack of 06/04/1994 Against the Falcon 50 Rwandan Presidential Aeroplane, Registration Number 9XR-NN, Mutsinzi Commission of the Government of the Republic of Rwanda, January 11, 2010 [concluding that the 1994 assassination of then-president Juvenal Habyarimana, an action attributed with having triggered the Rwandan genocide in 1994, was the work of Hutu extremists].

Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here. Latest commentary available here. JURIST has more on the Rwandan genocide.

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Charles Manson sentenced to death

On April 19, 1971, Charles Manson was sentenced to death for ordering the murders of Sharon Tate and others. The sentence was then commuted to life after the Supreme Court of California overturned the death penalty in 1972. Learn more about the trial of Charles Manson from the University of Missouri - Kansas City School of Law.

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