Before sentences could be handed out Samuel Hinga Norman died of natural causes during surgery in Dakar, Senegal. Fofana and Kondewa were found guilty of the charges of murder, pillage and the use of child soldiers and were sentenced to six and eight years respectively. In 2008 the appeal court changed the sentencing and gave Fofna fifteen years and Kondewa twenty years to be served out in Rwandan prison.
Before sentences were handed out, Samuel Hinga Norman died from natural causes during surgery in Dakar, Senegal. Fofana and Kondewa were found guilty of murder, pillage, and the use of child soldiers and received six and eight years respectively. In 2008, the appeal court changed their sentences to fifteen and twenty years for Fofana and Kondewa to serve in Rwandan prison.