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PARIS. – A court in Paris has sentenced a former Rwandan doctor to 27 years in jail for crimes committed during the 1994 genocide, during which several thousands of people were killed.
The decision comes more than 14 years after Eugene Rwamucyo was arrested in the French capital. He had been on Interpol’s wanted list since 2006.
An estimated 800,000 ethnic Tutsis and moderate Hutus were killed by extremist Hutu factions during the East African nation’s 100-day bloodbath three decades ago.
Prosecutors had sought a 30-year prison sentence for Rwamucyo, accusing him of being part of a “war committee” that planned the genocide against Tutsis in the southern town of Butare, where he was at the time.
Rwamucyo, born to a Hutu family, also allegedly ordered the mass burial of Tutsis in the town, including survivors of the massacre.
Ms Angelique Uwamahoro, one of several witnesses who traveled to Paris for the former doctor’s month-long trial, said she saw Rwamucyo at a roadblock in Butare and overheard him urging militiamen to kill Tutsis. – RT.com
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