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|fullname = Elizaphan Ntakirutimana
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|origin = Kibuye, Rwanda
|occupation = Seventh-day Adventist Church priest
|type of villain = Dark Priest
|goals = Exterminate all Tutsis in Kibuye (failed)
|crimes = [[Genocide]]<br>Mass [[murder]]<br>[[War crimes]]<br>[[Crimes against humanity]]<br>[[Ethnic cleansing]]<br>[[Terrorism]]
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'''Elizaphan Ntakirutimana''' (1924, in Kibuye, Rwanda – January 22, 2007 in Arusha, Tanzania) was a pastor of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Rwanda and was the first clergyman to be convicted for a role in the 1994 [[Rwandan Genocide]].
'''Elizaphan Ntakirutimana''' (1924, in Kibuye, Rwanda – January 22, 2007 in Arusha, Tanzania) was a pastor of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Rwanda and was the first clergyman to be convicted for a role in the 1994 [[Rwandan Genocide]].
==Biography==
In February 2003, the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda found both Ntakirutimana and his son, [[Gérard Ntakirutimana]], a physician who had completed graduate work in the US prior to returning to Rwanda, guilty of genocide committed in Rwanda in 1994. The Tribunal found it proven beyond reasonable doubt that Ntakirutimana, himself belonging to the Hutu ethnicity, had transported armed attackers to the Mugonero complex, where they killed hundreds of Tutsi refugees. Ntakirutimana was sentenced to 10 years in prison. He was convicted on the basis of eyewitness accounts. A number of the convictions were overturned on appeal but the sentence was unchanged. He was released on December 6, 2006 after serving 10 years under arrest or in prison, and died the following month.


A letter addressed to Ntakirutimana by Tutsi Seventh-day Adventist pastors, which he showed to author Philip Gourevitch, provided the title for Gourevitch's 1998 book ''We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families''. The book accuses Ntakirutimana of complicity in the deaths of the refugees.
In February 2003, the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda found both Ntakirutimana and his son Dr. Gérard, a physician who had completed graduate work in the US prior to returning to Rwanda, guilty of genocide committed in Rwanda in 1994. The Tribunal found it proven beyond reasonable doubt that Ntakirutimana, himself belonging to the Hutu ethnicity, had transported armed attackers to the Mugonero complex, where they killed hundreds of Tutsi refugees. Ntakirutimana was sentenced to 10 years in prison. He was convicted on the basis of eyewitness accounts. A number of the convictions were overturned on appeal but the sentence was unchanged. He was released on December 6, 2006 after serving 10 years under arrest or in prison, and died the following month.
 
A letter addressed to Ntakirutimana by Tutsi Seventh-day Adventist pastors, which he showed to author Philip Gourevitch, provided the title for Gourevitch's 1998 book We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families. The book accuses Ntakirutimana of complicity in the deaths of the refugees.


Elizaphan Ntakirutimana died on January 22, 2007, aged 82
Elizaphan Ntakirutimana died on January 22, 2007, aged 82
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