Rwandan genocide trial opens in Germany
Posted Tuesday, January 18 2011 at 19:57
FRANKFURT, Tuesday
A former Rwandan
mayor went on trial today accused of ordering three Tutsi massacres
during the country’s 1994 genocide, in the first such case prosecuted in
Germany.
Mr Onesphore Rwabukombe, a 54-year-old ethnic
Hutu, is accused of genocide, murder as well as incitement of genocide
and murder before the higher regional court in the western city of
Frankfurt.
“Between April 11 and 15, 1994 the accused
ordered and coordinated three massacres in which a total of at least
3,730 members of the Tutsi minority who had sought refuge in church
buildings were killed,” prosecutor Christian Ritscher read out from the
charge sheet in court.
Rwabukombe, a former mayor of
the town of Muvumba in northeastern Rwanda who has lived in Germany for
several years, was arrested by German police in July. The charges were
filed with a court in Frankfurt on July 29. (AFP)
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