Rwandan official convicted on charges of genocide

cde.news desk 22 December 2019, 07:07 · 1 min read

epa07492293 A man looks at the clothes of those who were killed during the 1994 genocide are hung at one of the excavation sites in the suburbs of the capital Kigali, Rwanda, 06 April 2019. Since April 2018, hundreds of mass graves have been discovered in the sectors of Rusororo and Masaka after perpetrators of the attack had given their locations to the authorities, pointing out exact locations to excavate for the remains of the victims, according to the chief of survivors' association Kabagambire Theojene. Rwanda on 07 April will mark the 25th anniversary of the genocide that took place in 1994, where ethnic Hutu extremists killed ethnic Tutsis and moderate Hutus during a three-month killing spree that resulted in, according to Rwanda, the death of more than one million people. EPA-EFE/DAI KUROKAWA EPA-EFE/DAI KUROKAWA ATTENTION: This Image is part of a PHOTO SET

Rwandan official Fabien Neretse became the first person to be convicted on charges of genocide, a Brussels court ruled on Thursday.

According to Belgian newspaper De Standaard, the 71-year-old, who had pleaded not guilty, will discover his fate on Friday, with a life sentence expected.

The agricultural scientist was accused of having ordered the massacre of 11 people in the Rwandan capital of Kigali and two more civilians in a rural area north of the country’s largest city in 1994.

De Standaard / DW

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