The Afro-American, November 10, 2012 - November 16, 2012
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Months After Death, “The Jeffersons” Star Hemsley Still Unburied
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Months after his death from lung cancer on July 25 at age 74, the body of sitcom actor Sherman Hemsley has yet to be buried. The popular sitcom icon’s remains are currently locked away inside the San Jose Funeral Home in El Paso, Texas, where a refrigerator is keeping the actor’s body cold until a court settles disputes over who truly has rights to the body and assets. Hemsley signed a will on June 13 leaving all of his possessions to Flora Enchinton, who said she has known the actor for 20 years and lived with him for the Sherman Hemsley with co-stars last 10 years.
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Plans for Enchinton to have custody of the body were placed on hold when Richard Thornton, a Philadelphia man claiming to be the star’s brother, began to challenge the document. Funeral directors are waiting for a judge’s decision before taking any action involving Hemsley’s body. Hemsley is remembered for his classic roles on popular 1970s sitcoms such as “All in the Family” and “The Jeffersons,” where he played sarcastic business owner, George Jefferson.
Rwandan Opposition Leader Sentenced to Eight Years in Prison
Rwanda’s highest court recently sentenced opposition politician Victorie Ingabrie to eight years in prison on charges connected to that country’s 1994 genocide. Ingabrie was charged with six offenses: creating an armed group, complicity in terrorist acts, complicity in endangering the state through terrorism and armed violence, divisionism, genocide ideology, and spreading rumors intended to incite the public to rise up against the state. Critics viewed the case as an important test of the current limits of democracy in the African country and the tolerance of President Paul Kagame for opposing political parties. “The prosecution of Ingabire for ‘genocide ideology’ and divisionism illustrates the Rwandan government’s unwillingness to tolerate criticism and to accept the role of opposition parties in a democratic society,” Daniel Bekele, Africa director at Human Rights Watch, told allAfrica.com. “The courts should not be used for such political purposes.” Ingabrie was accused of transferring money to Hutu rebels and of questioning why no Hutu victims were mentioned alongside Tutsi victims in a genocide memorial. More than 800,000 people were killed in the country when government and ethnic militias went on a 100-day killing spree in 1994. Ingabrie pleaded not guilty in the trial, alongside four codefendants, Vital Uwumuremyi, Jean-Marie Vianney Karuta, Tharcisse Nditurende, and Noel Habiyaremye, who were all members of the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda, an armed group operating in the Congo which played a role in the genocide. Uwumuremyi was sentenced to four years and six months in prison, Nditurende and Habiyaremye to three years and six months each, and Karuta to two years and seven months.
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