Editor,

I have nothing to say about Désiré Munyaneza, the Canada-based Rwandan man convicted of crimes against humanity and direct participation in the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi.

That he’s just been jailed for his heinous crimes is not fair at all. I don’t support death sentence but those who kill our innocent kids should be hanged.

The law should be changed so that if you kill a child in Rwanda, then you get what you deserve. In the US, when you kill or rape a child you are severely punished. Even if you we were in one of the states that abolished the death penalty, believe you me, the inmates will ensure real justice for the victim.

Nobody should kill a child anywhere in the world.

Mwakenya, Maryland, United States

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