Mathieu Ngirumpatse

{{Short description|War Criminal}}

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| name = Mathieu Ngirumpatse

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| nationality = Rwandan

| birth_date = 12 December 1939{{cite web|title=Édouard Karemera and Matthieu Ngirumpatse v. The Prosecutor – Judgement|url=http://unictr.unmict.org/sites/unictr.org/files/case-documents/ictr-98-44/appeals-chamber-judgements/en/140929.pdf#page=6|publisher=ICTR|date=29 September 2014|id=Case No. ICTR-98-44-A|at=para. 3}}

| birth_place = Tare, Rwanda

| charge = Genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes

| conviction_penalty = life imprisonment

| conviction_status = Sentenced

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Mathieu Ngirumpatse (born 1939) is a Rwandan politician, who was president of the MRND.{{cite web|url=https://trialinternational.org/latest-post/mathieu-ngirumpatse/|title=Mathieu Ngirumpatse|work=TRIAL International}}

During a span of three months in 1994 approximately 800,000 ethnic Tutsis and moderate Hutus were killed in what the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) ruled was a "joint criminal enterprise" to exterminate Tutsis.

Ngirumpatse was sentenced to life imprisonment on 21 December 2011 for his role in the genocide.{{cite news|title=Life sentences in Rwanda genocide|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-16287169|work=BBC News|date=21 December 2011}}