POLISH-BORN American judge Theodor Meron on Tuesday read out the ICTR's appeals bench ruling in the Military 2 trial, delivering what was largely expected of him; setting free two former top officers in the security organs that presided over the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi.
They include Gen. Augustin Ndindiriyimana, the former head of the Gendermerie (the equivalent of state police) with Meron saying in the ruling that the Trial Chamber of the ICTR had erred in sentencing him to 11 years.
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