Jean-Baptiste Gatete

Jean -Baptiste Gatete (* 1953 in Murambi, Byumba province ) is a Rwandan politician and war criminal. The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda sentenced him for his involvement in the genocide in Rwanda in April 2011 to life imprisonment.

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Gatete was 1987-1993 Mayor of Murambi. He was a Hutu, a prominent member of the Mouvement national pour la républicain démocratie et le développement ( MRND ).

After the genocide in Rwanda, in which he was involved, among others, in the murders in Muvumba, he fled to the Republic of Congo, where he was taken on 11 September 2002.

In April 2011, the International Criminal Court sentenced him to life imprisonment.