Gacaca appeals court acquits Mukeshabatware

HUYE - Dismas Mukeshabatware, a popular radio personality and playwright, received an early Christmas gift after the Ngoma Gacaca Appeals Court acquitted him of Genocide charges yesterday. Mukeshabatware lodged an appeal after being convicted and sentenced by a lower Gacaca court in Ngoma to a 19-year jail term in October for his alleged role in the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi, particularly for his alleged role in the murder of Lucie Mujawamariya and her three children whose house he is said to have occupied shortly after.