The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) has sentenced the brother-in-law of the former Rwandan president to 20 years in jail for his role in the 1994 genocide that claimed in all the lives of over 800,000 people.

The Arusha-based UN court has established that Protas Zigiranyirazo, a brother-in-law of former Rwandan president Juvenal Habyarimana, had been part of a convoy of assailants who killed between 800 and 1,500 Tutsis at the Kesho Hill.

The killing took place on April 8 of 1994.

Protas Zigiranyirazo was arrested in July 2001 in Belgium and has been standing trial at the UN court in Arusha since October 2005.