Rwanda genocide: Why France finally held a trial for 1994 genocide
Rwanda genocide: A former Rwandan soldier was sentenced to 25 years in
jail on Friday for his role in Rwanda's 1994 genocide.
By Chine Labbe, Leigh Thomas, and Alexandria Sage, Reuters / March 15, 2014
A Paris court sentenced a former Rwandan soldier to 25 years in jail
on Friday for his role in Rwanda's 1994 genocide, in France's first
trial to punish those responsible for the three-month wave of
violence.
The court found Pascal Simbikangwa, 54, described by prosecutors as a
former soldier who rose to become the No. 3 in Rwanda's intelligence
services, guilty of genocide and complicity in crimes against
humanity.
Some 800,000 minority Tutsis and politically moderate Hutus died in
the bloodletting.
Simbikangwa, confined to a wheelchair since a 1986 car accident left
him a paraplegic, denied the charges against him during the six-week
trial and said he was the victim of a "witch-hunt" orchestrated by the
now ruling Tutsi tribal group.
Under French law, Rwandans suspected of involvement in the genocide
can be tried in a French court.
Other countries, including Belgium, Sweden, Norway and Germany, have
already held similar trials. France was long considered a safe haven
for those fleeing prosecution for their role in the massacre.
A guilty verdict could smooth future prosecutions by France's special
genocide unit, created two years ago.
Simbikangwa sought during the trial to minimize his importance within
the Rwanda secret services, calling himself a "mere agent" despite his
loyalty to
President Juvenal Habyarimana, a Hutu whose death in the downing of
his plane in April 1994 triggered the slaughter.
But witnesses said he stored arms at his home, gave orders to
extremist Hutus, and was known in the capital Kigali as a "torturer."
"France has nothing on me, but I get charges that not even ministers
or generals got," Simbikangwa told the jury before it retired to
consider the verdict.
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