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  "id": 3942906,
  "title": "Dutch court jails 66-year-old for life over Rwanda genocide",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/28/dutch-court-jails-66-year-old-for-life-over-rwanda-genocide",
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  "summary": "A Dutch court has sentenced a 66-year-old Rwandan man to life imprisonment for his role in the 1994 Rwanda genocide. According to the Associated Press, the man was convicted of participating in attacks on two predominantly Tutsi communities, where homes were looted and torched, and of throwing a grenade into a crowd of Tutsis sheltering in a soccer stadium.\n\nThe genocide, which occurred in 1994, claimed the lives of an estimated 800,000 people, mostly from the Tutsi minority. The defendant, whose name has not been released, was found to have taken part in the massacre of 3,000 Tutsis, RTE News reports.\n\nThe court stated that the defendant's conduct showed a significant lack of respect for human dignity and life, and that a lifelong prison sentence was necessary to do justice to the immense suffering inflicted on the victims and their families.",
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        "title": "Rwanda genocide: Dutch court sentences man to life in prison",
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        "title": "Dutch court hands life sentence to Rwandan man for genocide role",
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