{{Short description|Rwandan politician}} '''Callixte Kalimanzira''' (1953 – October 1, 2015) was the interior minister of the interim government of Rwanda during the 1994 genocide.
Kalimanzira was born in 1953 in Muganza Commune, Butare Prefecture.<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://unictr.irmct.org/sites/unictr.org/files/case-documents/ictr-05-88/appeals-chamber-judgements/en/101020.pdf | title=Judgement Case No. ICTR-05-88-A - Callixte Kalimanzira v. The prosecutor| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200730115904/https://unictr.irmct.org/sites/unictr.org/files/case-documents/ictr-05-88/appeals-chamber-judgements/en/101020.pdf | archive-date=2020-07-30 }}</ref>
Kalimanzira was indicted in 2005 by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda for his actions during the genocide on three counts: genocide, complicity in genocide and direct and public incitement to commit genocide;<ref>http://unictr.unmict.org/sites/unictr.org/files/case-documents/ictr-05-88/indictments/en/050721.pdf{{Dead link|date=August 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> he pleaded not guilty.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8112857.stm|title=Ex-minister jailed for genocide|publisher=BBC Online|date=22 June 2009|access-date=22 June 2009}}</ref> On June 22, 2009, Kalimanzira was sentenced to 30 years in prison for two counts of genocide and direct and public incitement to commit genocide.<ref>{{cite web|last=Chhatbar|first=Sukhdev|url=https://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iJajRoaJRyXensxsoSC26jWxbeNAD98VOGO00|title=Ex-minister gets 30 years in Rwanda genocide|publisher=Associated Press|date=June 22, 2009|accessdate=June 22, 2009}}{{dead link|date=June 2024|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref> The sentence was reduced on appeal to 25 years imprisonment in October 2010.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://unictr.unmict.org/en/cases/ictr-05-88|title = ICTR-05-88 | United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda}}</ref> Kalimanzira died on October 1, 2015, while serving his sentence in Benin.<ref>{{cite web |title=Enforcement of sentences |url=http://www.irmct.org/en/about/functions/enforcement-of-sentences |website=United Nations International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals |accessdate=24 December 2018 |language=en}}</ref>
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