A former Rwandan doctor has been jailed for 24 years by a French court for his involvement in the 1994 genocide.<\/p>\n
Sosthene Munyemana was on Wednesday found guilty of genocide, crimes against humanity and participation in a conspiracy to prepare these crimes.<\/p>\n
The 68-year-old former gynaecologist was accused of helping draft a letter for the interim government that supervised the killings of Tutsis.<\/p>\n
He was also accused of participating in meetings that organised roundups of Tutsi civilians in the southern Rwandan prefecture of Butare, where he lived at the time.<\/p>\n
Mr Munyemana, who moved to France months after the genocide, denied any wrongdoing and his lawyers said they planned to appeal the verdict.<\/p>\n
The public prosecutor had sought a sentence of 30 years during the six-week-long trial at the Assize Court in Paris.<\/p>\n
Elsewhere, a court in Brussels on Tuesday also found two Rwandans guilty of genocide and war crimes committed in their native country.<\/p>\n
S\u00e9raphin Twahirwa and Pierre Basabos\u00e9 were found to have committed multiple murders and attempted murders of Tutsis and moderate Hutus in Kigali between April and July 1994.<\/p>\n
Their sentencing is set for Wednesday<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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