Justin Mugenzi ( b. 1939 ) was chairman of the Liberal party and commerce minister in Rwanda during the 1994 Rwandan genocide . He was born in Rukara Commune , Kibungo Province . In 2011 he was convicted , along with Prosper Mugiraneza , of " conspiracy to commit genocide " and " public incitement to commit genocide " by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda ( ICTR ) . The convictions were reversed on appeal by Judges Theodor Meron , Patrick Robinson , Andrésia Vaz and Bakhtiyar Tuzmukhamedov . ( Judge Liu Daqun dissented the reversal of the convictions )
Rwandan genocide
Rwandan genocide
Justin Mugenzi