Rwanda: 14-Year Jail Term in Germany's First Genocide Trial

17 February 2014

A court in Frankfurt has sent a former Rwandan mayor to prison for 14 years. He had been accused of organizing one of the massacres in the 1994 genocide.

In the bare Frankfurt courtroom, the horrifying events of April 11, 1994 were being recalled. Witnesses told how they had sought safety from the Hutu militia by fleeing to a church in Kiziguro.

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