Rwandan faces 30-year jail term for genocide
Belgian prosecutors yesterday urged a court to impose a 30-year jail term on a former Rwandan official convicted of genocide for his part in his country’s 1994 massacres. Fabien Neretse, a 71-year-old agricultural engineer, was arrested in France in 2011 and was found guilty of genocide and war crimes on Thursday after a trial in the Brussels high court. Neretse, who protested his innocence throughout the trial, is the first person to be convicted in Belgium on a genocide charge. He was also convicted of war crimes for 11 killings in Rwanda, under Belgium’s code of universal jurisdiction for the most serious offences.
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