A Roman Catholic priest
accused of taking part in the 1994 Rwandan genocide has gone on trial
at the UN war crimes tribunal in Tanzania. Athanase Seromba refused to
appear in court, accusing the tribunal of bias. He is the first
Catholic priest to go on trial at the tribunal, set up after the
slaughter of some 800,000 ethnic Tutsis and moderate Hutus. He denies
charges that he organised the massacre of more than 2,000 Tutsis at a
church in the west of Rwanda. Former Rwandan army chief of staff
Major-General Augustin Bizimungu also boycotted the start of his
separate, trial on Monday. [more ]
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