A former spokesman of the rebel Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR) operating in Eastern DR Congo, Ignace Nkaka who goes by the alias La Forge Bazeye has received a 10-year jail sentence for his role in terrorism activities, a judicial source confirmed to APA on Wednesday.
The FDLR are remnants of the perpetrators of the 100-day massacre of the Tutsis and moderate Hutus in Rwanda that year.
They are now part of the larger P5 network led by a renegade senior officer of the Rwandan army Kayumba Nyamwasa coalition of the Rwanda National Congress (RNC) and other militias aiming to topple the government in Kigali.
For eight years, La Forge Fils Bazeye, was the public face of the FDLR militia which is based in eastern DRC.
During the sentencing hearing in Kigali, Nsekanabo co-accused, Lt Col Jean-Pierre Nsekanabo, a former intelligence chief of the same rebel militia was also sentenced to 10 years imprisonment.
The FDLR is composed of former Rwandan soldiers and ethnic Hutu militiamen who fled into lawless eastern DRC after the mass killing of around 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus during the genocide in 1994.
Nkaka Ignace and FDLR co-defendant, Jean-Pierre Nsekanabo, were charged at their first appearance in a Kigali court with six offenses including membership of a terrorist group, taking part in terrorist activities and inciting others to commit terrorism.
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