{{Short description|War Criminal}} {{Infobox criminal | name = Mathieu Ngirumpatse | image_name = | image_caption = | birth_date = 12 December 1939<ref>{{cite web|title=Édouard Karemera and Matthieu Ngirumpatse v. The Prosecutor – Judgement|url=http://unictr.unmict.org/sites/unictr.org/files/case-documents/ictr-98-44/appeals-chamber-judgements/en/140929.pdf#page=6|publisher=ICTR|date=29 September 2014|id=Case No. ICTR-98-44-A|at=para. 3}}</ref> | birth_place = Tare, Rwanda | charge = Genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes | conviction_penalty = life imprisonment | conviction_status = Sentenced }}
'''Mathieu Ngirumpatse''' (born 1939) is a Rwandan politician, who was president of the MRND.<ref name=TRIAL>{{cite web|url=https://trialinternational.org/latest-post/mathieu-ngirumpatse/|title=Mathieu Ngirumpatse|work=TRIAL International}}</ref>
During a span of three months in 1994 approximately 800,000 ethnic Tutsis and moderate Hutus were killed in what the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) ruled was a "joint criminal enterprise" to exterminate Tutsis. Ngirumpatse was sentenced to life imprisonment on 21 December 2011 for his role in the genocide.<ref name=TRIAL/><ref>{{cite news|title=Life sentences in Rwanda genocide|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-16287169|work=BBC News|date=21 December 2011}}</ref>
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==Further reading== * {{cite web|url=http://rwandadelaguerreaugenocide.univ-paris1.fr/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/From-War-to-Genocide-Box-8.pdf|title=From War to Genocide, Box 8: Mathieu Ngirumpatse, the chosen "successor" to Habyarimana|first=André|last=Guichaoua}}
==External links== * [http://unictr.unmict.org/en/cases/ictr-98-44 KAREMERA et al. (ICTR-98-44)], International Criminal Tribuneral for Rwanda
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