François Bazaramba ( born Nshili , Gikongoro Province , Rwanda , 1 January 1951 ) is a Rwandan sentenced to life imprisonment in Finland for participating in the Rwandan genocide in 1994 . While living in Rwanda , he worked as a teacher and a headmaster for a vocational school . Later he became a pastor in the Zambian Baptist Church . The '' Bazaramba '' case is historic in Finnish legal history because it was the first time anyone was sentenced under the section 1 of Chapter 11 of the Criminal Code since the international norms against genocide were implemented in national law
Rwandan genocide in 1994
Rwandan genocide
François Bazaramba