Jakarta Globe, Agence France-Presse, April 02, 2013
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| More than 800,000 ethnic Tutsis were killed during the Rwandan genocide in 1994. (AFP Photo) |
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Paris. A
French court has for the first time ordered a Rwandan to face trial over the
country’s 1994 genocide, a judicial source told AFP on Tuesday.
Pascal
Simbikangwa, a former Rwandan army captain arrested on the French island of
Mayotte in 2008, is facing charges of complicity in genocide and complicity in
crimes against humanity but can still appeal the decision in an attempt to
avoid the trial.
It was not
immediately clear if his lawyers would file an appeal.
Simbikangwa,
a former intelligence officer under Rwanda’s Hutu government, was arrested
under an international arrest warrant for his alleged involvement in the
genocide, which killed some 800,000 people over three months.
France in
early 2010 set up a new unit to try cases of genocide and crimes against
humanity involving suspects detained in France.
It has
repeatedly refused to extradite genocide suspects to Rwanda, fearing they would
be denied a fair trial, but has sent some to Tanzania to face trial at the
International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda.
Agence France-Presse
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