Rwandan genocide trial opens in Germany

A former Rwandan mayor went on trial yesterday accused of ordering three Tutsi massacres during the country's 1994 genocide, in the first such case prosecuted in Germany.
Onesphore Rwabukombe, a 54-year-old ethnic Hutu, is accused of genocide, murder as well as incitement to genocide and murder before the higher regional court in the western city of Frankfurt.
"Between April 11 and 15, 1994 the accused ordered and coordinated three massacres in which a total of at least 3,730 members of the Tutsi minority who had sought refuge in church buildings were killed," prosecutor Christian Ritscher read out from the charge sheet in court.