Rwanda 'Genocide' Ex-Mayors Jailed By France

A Paris court has jailed for life two former Rwandan mayors over a massacre in their village of Kabarondo in 1994. Some 2,000 people, mostly Tutsis, were killed while seeking refuge in a church - some with machetes.

Octavien Ngenzi, now 58, and his mayoral predecesssor Tito Barahira, 64, were found guilty Wednesday of crimes against humanity, genocide and systematic summary executions after an eight-week trial in France.

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