Kabarondo Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/kabarondo/ The low down on African affairs Mon, 09 May 2016 22:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://i0.wp.com/jjcornish.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-Fountain_Pen_favicon-812.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Kabarondo Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/kabarondo/ 32 32 Two former Rwandan mayors go on trial in France for involvement in genocide https://jjcornish.com/2016/05/two-former-rwandan-mayors-go-trial-france-involvement-genocide/ Mon, 09 May 2016 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2016/05/two-former-rwandan-mayors-go-trial-france-involvement-genocide/ Two former Rwandan mayors go on trial in France today, charged with  of crimes against humanity and genocide over the 1994 massacres in the central African country. The pair have already been sentenced in absentia to life imprisonment by Rwandan people’s courts. ends into This is the second trial by a special court in Paris […]

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]]> Two former Rwandan mayors go on trial in France today, charged with  of crimes against humanity and genocide over the 1994 massacres in the central African country.
The pair have already been sentenced in absentia to life imprisonment by Rwandan people’s courts.
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This is the second trial by a special court in Paris created to pursue suspected Rwandan killers who fled to France.
Rwanda accuses France of complicity in the genocide because of its unwavering support for the Hutu nationalist government at the time.
Rwanda’s minority Tutsi president, Paul Kagame’s  openly accused French soldiers of not only complicity in the genocide but of actually taking part in it.
Octavien Ngenzi and Tito Barahira,are charged with allegedly playing a direct role in the massacre of hundreds of Tutsi refugees in a church in the eastern town of Kabarondo on April 13, 1994.

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