Posted By: Gregory
Pastor released from prison and dies. - 02/12/07 11:11 PM
Rawanda: Death of the Adventist Minister Elizaphan Ntakirutimana
Hirondelle News Agency , Lausanne, (January 23, 2007). Arusha, Tanzania.
“The Adventist Church minister, Elizaphan Ntakirutimana, released on December 7th by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) after he had completed his 10 year prison term, died in the night of Monday to Tuesday, an official source has reported on Tuesday. According to the ICTR’s spokesperson, Everard O’Donnell, the minister passed away in a hospital of Arusha. The ICTR is waiting for ‘instructions’ from the deceased’s family, he added. Ntakirutimana, 82, had been the first condemned of the ICTR to be liberated at the end of his prison term. After his release, the old man, exhausted, had briefly called on the Rwandan population to ‘not make false allegations against innocents, like him.’… In 1994, he was at the head of the Mugonero Adventist Church complex located in the region of Kibuye (west) which comprised a church, a hospital and a secondary school. Thousands of Tutsis died there in the month of April 1994.
NOTE: I have taken this from the Adevntist Today website.
Hirondelle News Agency , Lausanne, (January 23, 2007). Arusha, Tanzania.
“The Adventist Church minister, Elizaphan Ntakirutimana, released on December 7th by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) after he had completed his 10 year prison term, died in the night of Monday to Tuesday, an official source has reported on Tuesday. According to the ICTR’s spokesperson, Everard O’Donnell, the minister passed away in a hospital of Arusha. The ICTR is waiting for ‘instructions’ from the deceased’s family, he added. Ntakirutimana, 82, had been the first condemned of the ICTR to be liberated at the end of his prison term. After his release, the old man, exhausted, had briefly called on the Rwandan population to ‘not make false allegations against innocents, like him.’… In 1994, he was at the head of the Mugonero Adventist Church complex located in the region of Kibuye (west) which comprised a church, a hospital and a secondary school. Thousands of Tutsis died there in the month of April 1994.
NOTE: I have taken this from the Adevntist Today website.