Elizaphan Ntakirutimana

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Elizaphan Ntakirutimana
Born	1924 Kibuye, Rwanda
Died	January 22, 2007 (age 82) Arusha, Tanzania

Elizaphan Ntakirutimana (b. 1924, Kibuye, Rwanda - d. January 22, 2007, Arusha, Tanzania) was a pastor of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Rwanda.

In February 2003, the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda found both Ntakirutimana and his son Gérard guilty of genocide committed in Rwanda in 1994. The Tribunal found it proven beyond reasonable doubt that Ntakirutimana had transported armed attackers to the Mugonero complex, where they killed hundreds of Tutsi refugees. Ntakirutimana was sentenced to 10 years imprisonment. On the 6th December 2006, after serving 10 years in arrest or prison, he was released.

Ramsey Clark, Defence Counsel for Ntakirutimana, described the clergyman as a pacifist who couldn't even "wring the neck of a chicken".^{[citation needed]}

A letter addressed to Ntakirutimana by Tutsi Seventh-day Adventist pastors, which he showed to author Philip Gourevitch, provided the title for Gourevitch's 1998 book We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families. The book accuses Ntakirutimana of complicity in the deaths of the refugees.

Elizaphan Ntakirutimana died on January 22, 2007, aged 82.ICTR Press Release