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MILITARY JUSTICE SYSTEM

The military justice system, which has received substantial support from foreign donors like the United States and the United Kingdom, opened files on 843 cases during 1999. It carried out 295 trials, with fifty-eight soldiers acquitted, twenty-eight sentenced to death, and 207 sentenced to prison terms ranging from one month to life in prison. It is unclear how many of these cases involve former FAR soldiers charged with genocide, how many concern RPA soldiers accused of violations of human rights, and how many represent charges of common crime or infractions of military discipline. 41 As of this writing, authorities had not yet announced the arrest of any suspects in the cases described above.

41 Rwandan Patriotic Army, Department of the Auditorat Militaire, Annex B, Annual Report, 1999.

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