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French court orders trial for Rwanda genocide suspect
21 January 2021By AFP
0 min 55Approximate reading time A Paris appeals court on Thursday confirmed a trial for a former Rwanda government official living in France since 1997 who is suspected of participating in the 1994 massacre of over 800,000 people, mainly ethnic Tutsis. Laurent Bucyibaruta faces charges of genocide, complicity in genocide and crimes against humanity after investigating judges ordered a trial in December 2018. His lawyer, Ghislain Mabonga Monga, told AFP that Bucyibaruta would appeal the decision to France’s supreme court. Bucyibaruta was a state official in Gikongoro, southern Rwanda, where he was accused of complicity in widespread summary executions between April and January 1994.